Dick Swaab#
| Membership Number: | 6615 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://nin.nl/research-groups/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9665-7845 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - now Qiu Shi Professor of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
- 1978 - now Leader Research team Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Neth. Inst for Neuroscience
- 1985 Founder and, until 2005, Director of the Netherlands Brain Bank
- 1979 - 2005 Professor of Neurobiology at the Medical Faculty, University of Amsterdam, now Emeritus
- 1978 - 2005 Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research
- 1975 - 1978 Acting director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Fields of Scholarship
- Brain developent
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Human brain
- Sexual differentiation of the brain
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neurobiology
- Brain banking
Honours and Awards
- 29 May 2014 Ott’s Medal, Russian Academy of Science, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, for molecular microscopy and its application in human neuroendocrine pathology
- 2014 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Media Award for Wij zijn ons Brein: van Baarmoeder tot Alzheimer, for destigmatizing brain disorders
- 2013 Freethinker of 2013. 26 October 2013, Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht
- 2008 Academy medal for his role in national and international neuroscience (fundamental to applied), for his initiative to start the Netherlands Brain Bank, and for his research in Alzheimer's disease
- 2005/6 Visiting Professorship in Sleep Medicine (Amer.Ass.of Sleep Med.& Pfizer) at Stanford, CA, USA
- 2002 GIRES (Gender Identity Research and Education Society) award 2002 for the article ‘Male-to Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus.’ (Kruijver et al., J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metabol. 2034-2041
- 21 July 2002 Alzheimer’s Association Award: Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research. Received at the 8th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders in Stockholm, Sweden
- Federa Prize 2000, Federation of Medical Scientific Societies, November 17, 2000, RAI, Amsterdam, for scientific work in biomedical determinants of Alzheimer’s disease
- 1998 Royal Honour, “Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion” bestowed by her Royal Highness Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- 1996 Emil Kraepelin Guest Professorship 1996, Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Munich, Germany
- June 26 1990 ‘Hugo van Poelgeest' prize for the Netherlands Brain Bank as an alternative for animal experiments
- 1976 'Snoo-van 't Hoogerhuijs' prize (together with Dr. W.J. Honnebier) for work in the field of fetal neuroendocrinology
