Nationality
Netherlands
Year of Birth
1957
1982
University of Utrecht, M.Sc. in Biology
1984
University of Utrecht, M.D.
1985
University of Utrecht, Ph.D.
1985–1989
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, Postdoctoral Fellow Pathology, Cox Terhorst Lab
1989–1991
University of Utrecht, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Immunology, Lecturer in Clinical Immunology
1991–2002
University of Utrecht, Dept. of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Professor and Chairman
2002–2012
Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, Head Director
Since 2002
University of Utrecht, Professor in Molecular Genetics
2002–2022
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, (continued as advisor beyond March 2022), Principal Investigator of a research group of ~25 scientists
2012–2015
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Utrecht, President
2015–2019
Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Director Research
2015–2022
Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Principal lnvestigator of a research group (continued as advisor beyond 2022)
2019–2022
Roche Holding Ltd., Member of the Board of Directors
Since 2022
Roche Basel, Head of Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED)
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2005–2015
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), Lausanne
2006–2008
President of the International Society of Differentiation (ISD)
2012–2015
Member of the board of the American Association for Cancer Research
2014–2020
Chief Scientific Officer der HUB Organoids Technology, Utrecht
2015–2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna
Since 2016
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Francis Crick Institute, London
2016–2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Decibel Therapeutics, Boston
2016–2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board and co-founder of Surrozen, San Francisco
2016–2020
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Kallyope, New York
2017–2018
President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
2018–2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Merus, Utrecht
2020–2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board and co-founder of Xilis, North Carolina
2021–2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board and co-founder of D1 Med, Shanghai
2021–2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Volastra, New York
2000
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam
2014
National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Washington
2016
Academie des Sciences de I 'Institut de France, Paris
2017
Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, Berlin
2019
The Royal Society, London
2019
The Royal Society, Edinburgh
2000
Catharijne-prize for medical research, Utrecht
2001
Award from the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Nice
2001
Spinoza Award of the Netherlands Reserach Council (NWO, Den Haag)
2004
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
2005
The Science and Society Prize, Amsterdam
2005
The French honor of “Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur”
2005
Katharine Berkan Judd Award, New York
2006
Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize for Immunology and Cancer Research, Jerusalem
2008
Josephine Nefkens Prize for Cancer Research (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam)
2008
Meyenburg Cancer Research Award, Germany
2009
The Queen Wilhelmina Dutch Cancer Society Award, Amsterdam
2010
The United European Gastroenterology Federation (UEGF) Research Prize
2011
The Ernst Jung Medical Award, Germany
2011
Kolff prize, Amsterdam
2012
Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC) Léopold Griffuel Prize, Paris
2012
William Beaumont prize of the American Gastroenterology Association (USA)
2012
The Heineken Prize for Medicine, Amsterdam
2012
Knight in the Order of the Nederlands' Lion
2013
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, San Francisco
2014
Massachusetts General Hospital Award in Cancer Research, Massachusetts
2014
Fellow of the AACR Academy, Washington
2014
Struyvenberg European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) medal, Utrecht
2014
National Icon of the Netherlands, Amsterdam
2015
ISSCR-McEwen Award for Innovation, San Francisco
2016
The Academy Professor Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy, Amsterdam
2016
Kazemi Award for Research Excellence in Bio-Medicine, Teheran
2016
The Körber European Science Prize, Germany
2016
Swammerdam medaille, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016
The Ilse & Helmut Wachter award, Hamburg, Germany
2017
Princess Takamatsu Award of Merit, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern, Germany
2018
Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal, Barcelona, Spain
2019
Keio Medical Science Prize, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Citation Laureate, Web of Science Group
2021
Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award
2022
Ammodo Science Award
2022
Taobuk da Vinci Science Award
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