Thorbald van Hall is professor experimental tumorimmunology at the Department of Medical Oncology in the LUMC. His expertise concerns resistance of tumors to immunotherapy.

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.

Since 1985, Professor Hans Vasen is staff member of the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) as well as Medical Director of the Dutch Hereditary Cancer Registry. In 2000, Vasen received the Frieda den Hartog Jager Penning (Dutch Association Gastroenterology…

Piet Postmus is head of department and chair of Pulmonary Diseases at LUMC. Awards: 2015 Heine H. Hansen award of ESMO en IASLC 2013 Joseph Cullen prevention /early detection award (IASLC)

Professor dr A.J. Gelderblom is medical oncologist and chair of the department of Medical Oncology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He was chair of the Dutch Organisation of Medical Oncologists (NVMO), member of the board of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer…

Karin de Visser is professor in Experimental Immunobiology of Cancer (specifically of the tumor microenvironment) at Leiden University and affiliated with the department Immunohematology and Blood transfusion at Leiden University Medical Center. She is also senior group leader at the Division of Tumor…

Since March 2011, Prof Dr Yvette M van der Linden (1970) works as senior radiation oncologist at the Leiden University Medical Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, and is founder and head of the academic Centre of Expertise in Palliative Care LUMC. Since June 1st 2020 she holds a chair in Palliative Medicine,…

Monique van Leerdam is professor in the Gastoenterology, specialized in the prevention of hereditary tumors at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in Leiden. She is senior staff member of the department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the LUMC and head of the department of Gastrointestinal…

Hans Morreau is a registered medical specialist (attending anatomic and molecular pathologist), affiliated to the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. He is professor of Pathology and head of the molecular diagnostic unit of the department. Furthermore he is a registered “clinical molecular…

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Staff member in the department of Immunology, member of the daily management team. Chairman of the Scientific Advisory board of the LUMC. Member of the Biomedical Sciences Program committee. Recipient of a prestigious PIONIER grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in 1993. Director…

Fijs van Leeuwen is professor of radiology and chair of ‘molecular imaging and image guided therapy’. He also co-directs the LUMC-wide image-guided surgery program. In addition to his appointments at the LUMC he has guest-appointments at the Bionanotechnology group of Wageningen University, the departments…

Bart van Hoek, M.D., Ph.D. is Gastroenterologist –Hepatologist and Professor of Hepatology at Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is Medical Director of the Liver Transplant program -which he co-founded-and of the Hepatology Unit of the Dept. of Gastroenterology…

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…

James Hardwick is Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, in particular the Early Detection and Treatment of Colorectal Tumours.

Hein W. Verspaget is professor in Biobanking at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Nowadays he is head of the centralized biobank facility in the LUMC, national and LUMC biobank-coordinator of the Parelsnoer Institute from the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres. He is also…

Corrie Marijnen started her training as radiation-oncologist in 1994 in the Academic Hospital Leiden. During her residency, she started with her PhD, which she achieved with honors in 2002 . After working for 4 years in the Antoni van Leeuwenhoekhospital/National Cancer Institute, she became chair of…

Johanna (Joke) Meijer is professor and head of the section Neurophysiology, within the department of Cell and Chemical Biology. Her research primarily focuses on unravelling the mechanisms that regulate and synchronise the biological clock, both through external and internal factors. Additionally, she…

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), as a partner in the reNEW consortium, is once again receiving tens of millions of euros for research into new treatments based on stem cells. The collaboration will receive a total of €150 million to develop new therapies in regenerative medicine.

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Sjoerd van der Burg is full professor in the Immunotherapy of solid tumors with emphasis on immunomonitoring. He heads the laboratory of Medical Oncology and leads the group of Experimental Cancer Immunology and Therapy. He is also appointed as senior investigator at the Oncode Institute. In addition,…

Adam Cohen in Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and was until 2018 CEO of the Foundation Centre for Human Drug Research (www.chdr.nl). CHDR is a leading institute involved in early drug research in collaboration with LUMC and Leiden University. He is a physician at the department of Nephrology of L…

Ed J. Kuijper is currently the head of the Experimental Microbiology and the Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile at the Leiden University Medical Centre and the Centre for Infectious Disease Control of the National Institute of Public Health. Since 2015, his department also hosts the 'National…

Matthias van Osch is professor in Radiology, experimental cerebrovascular imaging and he is vice-director of the C.J. Gorter Center for high field MRI. in 2016 he was awarded with the innovational research incentives scheme VICI “Breaking through spatial, temporal and physiological boundaries in brain…

Olaf Dekkers is professor internal medicine, chair of the scientific board internal medicine at LUMC and visiting professor at the department clinical epidemiology in Aarhus, Denmark.

Ingrid Meulenbelt is professor of molecular biology of Osteoarthritis (OA) and head of the OA research group within the section Molecular Epidemiology and the department of Biomedical Data Sciences. She is vice-chair of the LUMC VENI committee and member of the executive body of education of the master…

Prof.dr. C.J. (Christi) van Asperen is professor of Clinical Genetics, in particular clinical genetic advice in oncogenetics. She is working as a professor-medical specialist in the Department of Clinical Genetics in the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).

Carien Creutzberg is Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Leiden University Medical Center. Her clinical, scientific and educational activities are mainly focused on improving treatment and outcome for women with gynaecological cancers. She holds several national…