Karin de Visser#
| Membership Number: | 4591 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.nki.nl/divisions/tumor-biology-immunology/de-visser-k-group |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015, October Group Leader at the Division of Tumor biology & Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2012 - 2015 Junior Group Leader (tenure track) at the Division of Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 2008-2012 Research Staff Associate at the Department of Molecular Biology , Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 2005-2008 Postdoc at the Department of Molecular Biology (Jos Jonkers lab), Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 2003-2005 Postdoctoral Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) fellow at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center in the lab of Lisa Coussens, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, USA
- 1998-2002 PhD student at the Division of Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute. Thesis supervisor: Prof. dr. A.M. Kruisbeek. Ph.D. degree obtained on October 20th 2002, from the Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Tumor immunology
- Inflammation and Cancer
- Crosstalk adaptive and innate immune cells in cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Metastasis
- Transgenic mouse models
- Tumor microenvironment
- Immunotherapy
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Selected member of the EMBO Young Investigator Program (YIP)
- 2016 Invited member of the European Academy for Tumor Immunology (EATI)
- 2015 The Metastasis Research Price for advanced researchers of the Beug Foundation for Metastasis Research
- 2014 ERC consolidator grant laureate
- 2009 NWO-VIDI laureate
- 2009 NWO/Aspasia award: career advancement award of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of NWO.
- 2003 AACR-Women in cancer research Brigid G. Leventhal Scholar-in-Training Award, awarded at the 94th AACR Annual Meeting
- 2003 - 2005 Fellowship for fundamental and (pre)-clinical cancer research from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF). This prestigious fellowship fully covered my postdoctoral training in the Coussens lab at UCSF, USA
