Organization

The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL), founded in 1913 and based in Amsterdam, is an independent comprehensive cancer center, comprising a hospital and research laboratories under one roof in a single independent organization.

Our research institute accommodates 750 scientists and scientific support personnel from more than 45 different countries. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital has 230 medical specialists, 212 beds, an outpatient clinic with around 140,000 visits annually, 12 operating theaters and 11 irradiation units for radiotherapy.

Our research institute gratefully acknowledges funding from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the Dutch Cancer Society and individual donors, and from project grants from national and international organizations.

Patron

Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands

Executive Board

• Maurice van den Bosch, Chair of the Executive Board
• Jacqueline Stouthard, Medical Director
• Thijn Brummelkamp, member of the Executive Board / Scientific Director Netherlands Cancer Institute
• Franka Morssink, member of the Executive Board

Board of Governors

• Pieter van der Slikke, president
• H. Uhlenbroek, vice president
• Agnes Jongerius
• Han van Krieken
• M.P. Lap
• Marcel Levi
• Anne Schilder

Research management

• Henri van Luenen, Operational Director
• Jacco van Rheenen, Deputy Scientific Director

International Scientific Advisory Board

• Alan Ashworth
  Director of the USFC Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, USA
• Titia de Lange
  Leon Hess Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA
• Steve Jackson
  Frederick James Quick Professor of Biology, University of Cambridge, UK
• Roel Nusse
  Professor of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
• Hidde Ploegh
  Professor of Immunology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
• Caroline Dive
  Interim Director CRUK, Manchester, UK
• Marileen Dogterom
  Group leader, TU Delft, NL
• Charles Swanton
  Professor, The Francic Crick Institute, London, UK

Works Council

We aspire to a future-proof organization, with healthy and satisfied employees. To achieve this, the Works Council - on behalf of all employees of the NKI - exerts influence on its policy and decisions.

The Works Council can be reached through ondernemingsraad@nki.nl & 020-5126066.

Brochure and scientific annual reports

• Brochure 2015
• Scientific anual report 2024
• Scientific annual report 2023
• Scientific annual report 2022
• Scientific annual report 2021
• Scientific annual report 2020
• Scientific annual report 2019
• Scientific annual report 2018