Hans Clevers - Biography#
Curriculum vitae and key publications
(January 2018)
Education
- 1982 M.Sc. ("Doctoraal") in Biology. University of Utrecht
- 1984 M.D. ("Artsexamen") University of Utrecht
- 1985 Ph.D. ("Promotie") University of Utrecht
Scientific Training/positions
- 1985 - 1989 Postdoctorl Fellow. Cox Terhorst Lab. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
- 1989 - 1991 Universitair Docent, Department of Clinical Immunology, University of Utrecht
- 1991 - 2002 Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Utrecht
- 2002 - 2012 Director of the Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002 - Professor in Molecular Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht
- 2012 - 2015 President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 2015 - Director Research of the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology
Prizes, awards
- 2000 Catharijne-prize for medical research
- 2001 Award from the European Society for Clinical Investigation
- 2001 Spinoza Award of the Netherlands Reserach Council (NWO)
- 2004 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2005 Science and Society Prize, Amsterdam
- 2005 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 Queen Wilhelmina Dutch Cancer Society Award, Amsterdam
- 2010 United European Gastroenterology Federation (UEGF) Research Prize
- 2011 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
- 2012 Heineken Prize for Medicine
- 2012 Knight in the Order of the Nederlands' Lion
- 2013 The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2014 Massachusetts General Hospital Award in Cancer Research
- 2014 TEFAF Oncology Chair 2014, Maastricht
- 2014 Fellow of the AACR Academy
- 2014 Struyvenberg European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) medal
- 2014 National Icon of the Netherlands
- 2015 ISSCR-McEwen Award for Innovation
- 2016 Academy Professor Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy
- 2016 Kazemi Award for Research Excellence in Bio-Medicine
- 2016 Körber European Science Prize, Germany
- 2016 Swammerdam medaille (Amsterdam)
- 2016 The Ilse & Helmut Wachter award, Hamburg, Germany
- 2017 Princess Takamatsu Award of Merit, Tokyo
Prize juries
- 2008 - 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize (Geneva)
- 2013 - 2015 Canada Gairdner Award (Toronto)
- 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (San Francisco)
- 2015 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research 2015
- 2015 Dr. Paul Janssen Award
- 2017 Francqui Prize 2017 (Bruxelles)
- 2017 Shaw Prize (Hong Kong)
- 2017 Kovalenko Medal (National Academy of Sciences)
Honorary Professorships
- 2002 Central South University, Chang Sha, China
- 2014 - 2015 TEFAF Oncology Chair
- 2016 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong
- 2015 - 2016 Visiting professor, Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel
- 2015 Visiting professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
Elected Memberships
- 1999 Member European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 2000 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
- 2009 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2012 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2012 Member of the ‘Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen’ (Royal Netherlands Society of Sciences and Humanities)
- 2014 Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
- 2016 Member of the Academie des Sciences de I 'Institut de France
- 2017 Member of the Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, Germany
Advisory Boards etc
- 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)
- 2007 - Member of the National Scientific Advisory Board NKI-AVL
- 2015 - Member of the the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna
- 2016 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Francis Crick Institute (London)
- 2016 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Decibel Therapeutics, Boston.
- 2016 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Surrozen, San Francisco
- 2016 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Kallyope, New York
- 2017 - 2018 President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
