Ton Schumacher#
| Membership Number: | 4618 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.nki.nl/people/schumacher-ton |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present CSO Kite Pharma EU (0.2 FTE)
- 2012 - 2016 Deputy Director, The Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 2005 - present Professor of Immunotechnology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden
- 2002 - present Full Member, Department of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 2001 - 2002 Associate Member, Department of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 1996 - 2001 Assistant Member, Department of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 1994 - 1996 Postdoctoral Associate, The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA
- 1992 - 1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Cancer immunotherapy
- T cell-based immune responses
- Antigen presentation
- Single cell tracing
Honours and Awards
- 2017 ERC Advanced Grant recipient EU)
- 2016 W.B. Coley Award (US)
- 2016 Peter Speiser Award (CH)
- 2016 van Loghem Award (NL)
- 2015 Meyenburg Cancer Research Award (DE)
- 2014 San Salvatore Award (CH)
- 2014 Queen Wilhelmina Cancer Research Award (NL)
- 2014 Fellow European Academy of Cancer Sciences (EU)
- 2012 SU2C Cancer Immunotherapy Dream Team Member (US)
- 2011 ERC Advanced Grant recipient (EU)
- 2010 EMBO Member (EU)
- 2010 Amsterdam Inventor Award (NL)
- 2000 Pioneer Award (NL)
- 1994 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow, The Life Sciences Research Foundation (US)
