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Bas van Steensel

Bas van Steensel

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Bas van Steensel received his PhD in 1995 from the University of Amsterdam.

He had postdoc positions at the Rockefeller University (Titia de Lange lab) and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Steve Henikoff lab), studying various aspects of chromosome biology.

Since 2002 he is Research Group Leader at the NKI. He is EMBO Member, recipient of an EURYI award, VICI and ERC Advanced grants; he is Investigator of the Oncode Institute and Adjunct Professor at Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam.

 


Fields of expertise

Genomics

Chromosomes

Gene regulation

Work Experience

2017 - present
Member, Oncode Institute

2017 - 2018
Sabbatical, Genome Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

2014 - present
Head of Division Gene Regulation, Netherlands Cancer Institute

2010 - present
Adjunct Professor Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2007 - present
Research Group Leader, Netherlands Cancer Institute

2002 - 2006
Junior Research Group Leader, Netherlands Cancer Institute

2000 - 2001
Assistant Professor and Researcher of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, University of Amsterdam

1998 - 2000
Postdoc Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Basic Sciences of Dr. Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/HHMI, Seattle, WA, USA

1995 - 1997
Post-doctoral Fellow Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics of Dr. Titia de Lange, the Rockefeller University, New York, NY

1990 - 1995
Ph.D. program in Biochemistry, E.C. Slater Institute, University of Amsterdam. Advisor Prof. Dr. Roel van Driel, thesis: 'Steroid receptors and nuclear structure'

1984 - 1989
Master’s Degree in Medical Biology, Utrecht University

 

 

 

 

 

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