Stefan Constantinescu#
| Membership Number: | 7040 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/research/constantinescu-group-page https://www.deduveinstitute.be/research-group/stefan-constantinescu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8599-2699 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 Co-Director, Ludwig Cancer Research Brussels Laboratories
- 2021 Professor (Full Professorial Status) of Cancer Signallng, and Senior Group Leader, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Oxford, Oxford UK (Part Time Member)
- 2018 Full Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Université catholique de Louvain
- 2016 Internal Consultant in Hematology, Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc, UCLouvain, Brussels
- 2009 Member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- 2008 (Part-time) Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
- 2005 Associate Member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brussels, Belgium
- 2003 Tenured Investigator of the FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique)
- 2003 (Part-time) Associate Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels,Belgium
- 2003 Member, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Brussels, Belgium
- 2000 Associate Member, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Brussels,Belgium
- 2000 Group Leader, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brussels Branch of Cancer Genetics, Brussels, Belgium
- 2000 Member of the Doctoral School of Genetics and Immunology (GIM), Mentor for Graduate Studies, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
- 1995 - 2000 Anna Fuller Fellow in Molecular Oncology (1995-1998) & Postdoctoral Fellow of the The Medical Foundation, Boston (1998 - 2000), Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (with Prof. Harvey F. Lodish)
- 1992 - 1994 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, Memphis College of Medicine (with Prof. Lawrence M. Pfeffer), Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
- 1990 - 1992 Junior Lecturer, Departments of Cell Biology and Virology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, and Research Associate, "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
Fields of Scholarship
- Structure and function of cytokine receptors and their associated proteins
- Blood cancer
- Link between signalling, epigenetic regulators, chromatin dynamics and differentiation in blood cancers and leukaemia
Honours and Awards
- 2023 - 2025 President of the Board of the Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA)
- 2022 - 2023 President, Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Brussels, (Belgium)
- 2021-2024 President of the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM)
- 2021 Alexandre and Gaston Tytgat Prize for research in cancer, Belgium
- 2020 - 2021 Vice-President, Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Brussels, (Belgium)
- 2019 Membre titulaire, Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Brussels, (Belgium)
- 2017 Welbio Investigator, Advanced Grant
- 2017 Prize for 2011-2015 of the Belgian Government for basic medical sciences medical research (Prix quinquennal des sciences médicales fondamentales 2011-2015)
- 2017 Special Recognition Award, Experimental Therapeutic Centre & D3 & A*Star, Singapore
- 2016 Honorary Foreign Member, Romanian Academy
- 2014 Pierre Stryckmans Lecture of the Belgian Society of Hematology
- 2013 Membre associé, Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Brussels, (Belgium)
- 2012 Member, Academy of Medical Sciences of Romania, Bucharest (Romania)
- 2011 Prize André Matthys-Bove (Prix scientifique « Madame veuve André Matthys-Bove »), Belgium
- 2009 Corresponding Member, Academy of Medical Sciences of Romania, Bucharest (Romania)
- 2003 Maggy and Robert de Hovre Award in Immunology (Fondation Maggy et Robert de Hovre, Brussels, Belgium)
- 1998 The Medical Foundation Fellowship, Boston (U.S.A.)
- 1995 - 1998 Anna Fuller Fellow in Molecular Oncology, award shared between the M.I.T. Center for Cancer Research and the Boyer Center of the Yale University (U.S.A.)
- 1991 Prize of the Romanian Academy
