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Sabine Linn

Sabine Linn

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Professor Sabine Linn is a medical oncologist who is committed to offer each cancer patient optimal care. She is senior staff member in the Division of Medical Oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Group Leader in the Division of Molecular Pathology. Together with the Linn lab team members, she is dedicated to developing diagnostic tests to define the best treatment for each breast cancer patient preferring simple solutions to minimize harm to the planet and people. Furthermore, she is Professor of Translational Oncology with focus on breast cancer at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Linn earned her MD from Leiden University in The Netherlands. She received a PhD in medicine about multidrug resistance from the Free University in Amsterdam. She trained in internal medicine at the University Medical Center Utrecht before her oncology fellowship at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. She also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in molecular pathology at Stanford University. Professor Linn is an internationally renowned breast cancer expert, who has led and participated in multiple clinical trials, and contributed to the development of diagnostic tests for breast and ovarian cancer that are now used in daily clinical practice.


Fields of expertise

Biomarker research

Work experience

2022 - present
Member Health Council of the Netherlands – Independent scientific advisory body for government and parliament

2012 – present 
Professor of Translational Oncology – with focus on breast cancer – Utrecht University

2005 – present
Group leader, Division of Molecular Biology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005
Board Certification Medical Oncology (subspecialty internal medicine)

2003 – present
Senior Staff member Dept of Medical Oncology, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2002 – 2003
Clinical fellow Medical Oncology, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2001 – 2002
Dutch Cancer Society research fellow in the laboratories of Prof. dr P.O. Brown, Dept of Biochemistry, and dr M. van de Rijn, Dept of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

2000 – 2001
Dutch Cancer Society research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. dr A.J. Berns, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2000
Board Certification in Internal Medicine

1998
PhD thesis: Clinical probing and reversal of multidrug resistance in solid tumors. Promotor: Prof. dr H.M. Pinedo (Free University Amsterdam)

1995 – 2000
Residency in Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht (head: Prof dr D.W. Erkelens)

1992 – 1995
Research fellow, Dept of Medical Oncology, (head: Prof. dr H.M. Pinedo) University Hospital Free University Amsterdam

1991
Medical Degree, State University Leiden (cum laude)

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