Professor of Laboratory Animal Science. Ancillary positions: • Project Leader, EU-project: ‘Promoting alternatives to animal testing through accessible and harmonised education & training’ (09.200200.A092004/2021/864077/SUB/ENV.B.2) • Member of the editorial board of Animals (MDPI open access…

Marieke Wermer is professor of Neurology with emphasis on neurovascular diseases in the Leiden University Medical Center. Personal research awards and grants 2011 VENI grant NWO/ZonMw 2011 Dekker Grant Netherlands Heart Foundation Junior Staff member 2014 Fellowship Netherlands Brain Foundation 2016…

Albert M. van Hemert is professor of Psychiatry, head of the LUMC department of Psychiatry and also chairman of Division 3. He is leader of the research programme Stress related mental disorders across the lifespan. He is member of the board of the NESDA-consortium and of the LUMC Vrienden Stichting…

Prof. Dr. H.W. Kapiteijn (Ellen) has been a Professor at Leiden University since October 1, 2025, specializing in uveal and mucosal melanoma. She is affiliated with the Department of Medical Oncology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Since 2010, she has been a staff member in the same department,…

Raymund AC Roos became MD in 1977 and defended his PhD thesis in 1984. The topic of his thesis was Nuclear Membrane Indentations in Huntington disease, an electron microscopical study. Initially as head of the outpatient department of the LUMC in Leiden he managed a movement disorder clinic with the…

Leo Visser holds a position as Professor of Infection Diseases with specific interest in Travel Medicine. Leo Visser is head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and deputy director of Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). Leo Visser is Member of the…

Haico van Attikum is professor of Chromatin and DNA repair at the Human Genetics department of the Leiden University Medical Center.

Jerry Braun is Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery, in particular Pulmonary Surgery, and acting department head of the department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). In addition, het is president of the Dutch Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery and member of the…

Johan H.M. Frijns is an ENT consultant and professor of Otology and Auditory Physics, head of the Center for Audiology and Hearing Implants Leiden (CAHIL) and of the LUMC Expertise Center for Rare Ear Diseases. From 2005 to 2023 he was also a trainer of the ENT residents in the Leiden OOR. He is also…

Elise Dusseldorp is Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research.

The promising early results of an international study have shown that insulin-producing cells grown from stem cells can cure the disease. The new Cure One LUMC research centre aims to accelerate this breakthrough.

According to the Act on the Equal Treatment of the Disabled and Chronically Ill, it is strictly forbidden to discriminate on the grounds of disability and chronic illness when providing employment, accommodation, goods and services.

On behalf of the Foundation the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Rick L.M. Haas has been nominated professor Radiotherapy. In 2021 he will serve as president of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society. He is Board Member of the European Muskulo-Skeletal Oncology Society.

Ewout Steyerberg is professor of Clinical Biostatistics and Medical Decision Making at Leiden University Medical Center and Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). He has been chairing the department of Biomedical Data Sciences since 2017. He was a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Society for Arts and…

Current position (4 d/wk, from mid 2013): director, Center for Infectious Disease Control of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (CIb-RIVM – Bilthoven), an agency of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. Additional position (1 d/wk since 2013, full-time in period 1999-2013):…

P.D. Sander Dijkstra is a professor of orthopaedic surgery, in particular oncological orthopaedic surgery, and taking care of bone and soft-tissue tumors, especially sarcoma, of the extremity and is specialized in the spinal and pelvic surgery. He is also member of the Netherlands Committee for Bone…

Robert J.M. Klautz, MD, PhD, is full professor and chair of the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at Leiden University Medical Center. Apart from that he is Member of the Supervisory Board of the ‘Westfries Gasthuis’ and ‘Waterland Ziekenhuis’, Chairman of the Consilium, member of the General Medical…

Hendrik Veelken is Professor of Internal Medicine, specifically Haematology, and chair of the Department of Haematology. He is director of the LUMC stem cell transplantation programme. In addition, he holds the function of chairman of the LUMC Oncology Centre.

Annemieke Geluk is professor of immunodiagnostics of mycobacterial infectious diseases, leprosy and tuberculosis. Additionally, her research group at the LUMC functions as the national reference centre for routine serological diagnosis of leprosy, and provides this service also in Europe.

Coen Rasch is Professor of Radiotherapy at Leiden University and Department Head of Radiotherapy at LUMC and the Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis in Delft. The departments of Radiotherapy of the LUMC and the Reinier de Graaf together form one integrated department.

Professor dr. Johanneke Portielje is medical oncologist at the department of Medical Oncology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). She holds a chair in Geriatric Oncology.

Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes is Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the Leiden University Medical Center. She is also a visiting professor at Ghent University Hospital, Belgium. She is immediate past coordinator of the special interest group “Stem Cells”…

Onno C Meijer is professor in neuroendocrinology of corticosteroids, at the department of Medicine.

On January 8, 2013, I was appointed professor of eating disorders at the department of psychiatry of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Since 1992 I have been employed as director at Rivierduinen Eating Disorders Ursula, a center of excellence for eating disorders in Leiden. My ancillary activities…

Rob C.M. Pelger is professor and chairman of the department of Urology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and chairman of the Urology 1973 Foundation.