Piet Borst#
| Membership Number: | 170 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 Group leader of the Piet Borst Lab, Division of Molecular Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 1987 - 1999 Chairman Board of Directors of The Netherlands Cancer Institute -Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam
- 1983 - 2005 Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, UvA (part time)
- 1983 - 1999 Research Director of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 1979 - 1981 Chairman of the Laboratory of Biochemistry, UvA
- 1972 - 1980 Director of the Institute of Animal Physiology, UvA
- 1969 - 1983 Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UvA
- 1966 - 1983 Head of the Section for Medical Enzymology, Laboratory of Biochemistry, UvA
- 1965 - 1969 Associate-professor of Physiological Chemistry, UvA
- 1963 - 1964 Post-doctoral research fellow, Biochemistry Department, New York University, with Severo Ochoa and Charles Weissmann
- 1958 - 1961 Ph.D., Laboratory of Biochemistry, Univ. of Amsterdam (UvA), superviser: E.C.Slater.
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular parasitology
- Unusual nucleotides in DNA
- Mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer cells
- Function of ABC-transporters in mammals
Honours and Awards
- 1981 Royal Dutch/Shell-prize for the Life Sciences (Netherlands)
- 1984 Paul-Ehrlich und Ludwig-Darmstaedter Prize, Germany (shared with Prof. George Cross)
- 1989 Howard Taylor Ricketts Award of the University of Chicago, USA
- 1990 Dr. G. Wander award of the Wander Foundation in Bern, Switzerland
- 1992 Dr. H.P. Heineken prize for biochemistry and biophysics of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Gold medal of the Robert Koch Foundation in Cologne, Germany
- 1999 Commander in the Order of the Dutch Lion (Netherlands)
- 1999 Silver Medal of merit of the City of Amsterdam
- 1999 Medal of the University of Amsterdam for exceptional contributions to the university
- 2000 Hamilton Fairley Award for Clinical Research, European Society for Medical Oncology, Hamburg
- 2023 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
- 2003 Honorary degree of Leiden University
- 2007 Honorary Foreign Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
- 2007 Honorary degree (Doctor of Laws) of the University of Dundee, Scotland
