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Jacco van Rheenen
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Experience
Jacco van Rheenen was originally trained in a variety of imaging
techniques during his PhD with Dr. Kees Jalink at the Netherlands
Cancer Institute. He was among the first to optimize imaging and
develop software to quantitatively measure FRET on confocal
microscopes. During his PhD in the lab of Dr. Jalink and as postdoc
in the lab of Dr. Sonnenberg (Netherlands Cancer Institute) he used
several microscopy techniques to study lipid signaling in tumor
cells. In order to broader his scales, he obtained a KWF fellowship
to do a postdoc in the United States in the lab of Dr. John
Condeelis at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. There he
extended his imaging experience by imaging mammary tumors
intravitally including two-photon microscopy and became an expert
in the field of intravital FRET imaging. In 2008 he was appointed
as group leader at the Hubrecht Institute, where he utilizes his
imaging techniques to visualize processes that are required for the
metastasis of tumor cells in living animals. In July 2014 he was
appointed professor in Intravital Microscopy at the University
Medical Center Utrecht. In October 2017 he became senior group
leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam. In
2009, he was awarded a VIDI award from Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research. In 2013, he received the Stem Cells Young
Investigator Award. In 2015, he was awarded an ERC consolidator
grant, and in 2017 the Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Foundation
Award.
