Erik Storkebaum#
| Membership Number: | 6879 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ru.nl/en/departments/donders-centre-for-neuroscience/molecular-neurobiology-0 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9519-5642 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-storkebaum-777569275/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - now Scientific Director, Donders Center for Neuroscience
- 2020 - now Full Professor, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2017 - 2022 Chair, Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2017 - 2020 Associate Professor, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2010 - 2018 Independent Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
- 2005 - 2010 Postdoctoral scientist in the Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, VIB, Leuven, Belgium (headed by Prof. P. Callaerts) “Drosophila melanogaster as a genetic model organism to unravel the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration”.
- 2005 Training in pharmacology at the university of Maastricht (The Netherlands) from July to September 2005 under the supervision of Prof. J. De Mey (Department of Pharmacology)
- 2004 Training in stereology at the university of Maastricht (The Netherlands) from June to August 2004 under the supervision of Prof. C. Schmitz (Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Division of Cellular Neuroscience).
- 2000 - 2005 PhD student at the Vesalius Research Center, University of Leuven, Belgium (promoter Prof. P. Carmeliet): "Role and therapeutic potential of vascular endothelial growth factor in motor neuron degeneration: a study in transgenic mice and rats."
- 1999 - 2000 Undergraduate thesis, Division of Biochemistry, University of Leuven, Belgium: "Molecular biological analysis of the regulation of transcription by androgen-responsive enhancers."
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular mechanisms of motor neurodegenerative diseases
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- tRNA biology
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth peripheral neuropathy
- Gene expression regulation
- Neuroscience
- mRNA translation
- Neuromuscular junction
- Axonal degeneration
- Molecular genetics
Honours and Awards
- 2018 ERC consolidator grant (2,000,000€)
- 2010 Frick Foundation Award for ALS research, Zürich, Switzerland (100,000 CHF)
- 2005 - 2011 Postdoctoral fellow “Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium)” (FWO)
- 2007 Krediet aan Navorser (FWO-Flanders): 25,000€
- 2005 Galenus prize, Brussels, Belgium (7,200€)
- 2005 Baron Simonart prize (for PhD thesis), Simonart Foundation, Belgium (8,000€)
- 2001 Pharmaleuven prize (best Master thesis), University of Leuven, Belgium (500€)
- 2000 - 2004 Predoctoral fellow “Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium)” (FWO)
