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)