Peter Carmeliet#
| Membership Number: | 4928 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.vibcancer.be/peter-carmeliet |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7961-1821 |
| Twitter: | @CarmelietLab |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-carmeliet-748101183/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - 2023 Part-time Professor Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2020 - Present Co-founder of spin-off company Montis Biosciences
- 2018 - 2022 Guest Professor, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology (SKLO) at Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC), Sun-Yat-Sen University (SYSU), China
- 2018 - Present Visiting Professor, He University, Shenyang, China
- 2015 - Present Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan
- 2015 - Present Chief Scientific Strategy Advisor, Oxurion and Oncurious, Belgium
- 2008 - 2015 Director, Vesalius Research Center (current Center for Cancer Biology, CCB), VIB Belgium
- 2004 - Present Visiting Professor, Darthmouth University, NH, USA
- 2000 - Present Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1999 - Present Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- 1996 - Present Group Leader, Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Vascular Metabolism, VIB - KU Leuven Department of Oncology, Belgium
- 1996 - 2008 Adjunct- Director, Center Transgene Technology & Gene Therapy, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Fields of Scholarship
- Angiogenesis
- Endothelial Cell Metabolism
- Cancer
- High-throughput screening
- Cellular Biology
- OMICs analysis
- Cardiovascular sciences
- Bioinformatics
- VEGF
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Honorary Mark of the Flemish Community for significant contributions to society in service of the Flemish community (Ereteken van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap), Brussels, Belgium
- 2022 Elected as Member of the Executive Council of the IACS-World ,Canada Consultant for the Emirates Reference Genome Panel (ERGP)
- 2021 International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)
- 2021 Fellow of the International Union of Physiological Sciences Academy (IUPS)
- 2019 Honorary Skou Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2018 Heineken Prize for Medicine, KNAW, the Netherlands
- 2018 ARC Foundation Léopold Griffuel Award, Paris, France
- 2017 Nominated as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2017 Distinguished Career Award, BACH-ISTH, Berlin, Germany
- 2016 EAS Anitschkow Prize, European Atherosclerosis Society, Innsbruck, Austria
- 2016 EU - ERC Advanced Grant, European Community
- 2015 Münster Heart Center Award – University Hospital Münster, Germany
- 2015 Noble title of Baron, granted by King Filip of Belgium
- 2014 Lola & John Grace Distinguished Lectures in Cancer Research, ISREC, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2014 Pieter Brakman Lecture, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2014 Joseph Austin McCartney and Ruth McCartney Hauck Visiting Professor - CCaTS Grand Rounds Lecture, Mayo Clinic – Rochester, USA
- 2013 Michael de Burgh Daly Prize Lecture, IUPS – Physiological Society, Birmingham, UK
- 2013 Hubertus Wald Award 2013 – Hubertus Wald Foundation, Hamburg, Germany
- 2011 Awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal in Medicine and Life Sciences by the European Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Ham-Wasserman Lecture – American Society of Hematology, San Diego
- 2010 Ernst Jung Medical Award 2010, Hamburg, Germany
- 2010 Joseph Maisin Prize for Excellence 2010 for Fundamental Biomedical Research, Brussels, Belgium
- 2010 EU - ERC Advanced Grant, European Community
- 2010 Elected as Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2005 Interbrew-Baillet Latour Prize, Belgium
