René Medema#
| Membership Number: | 3399 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nki.nl/divisions/cell-biology-i/medema-r-group |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012-present Scientific Director, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2010-2011 Manager Research and Education Division Internal Medicine UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2005-2011 Professor of Experimental Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2001-2005 Principle Investigator and Staff Member, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1995-2001 Associate professor, Department of Hematology, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 1993–1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Dutch Cancer Society, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell cycle control
- Cell cycle checkpoints
- Mitosis
- Spindle assembly
- DNA damage
- Kinases
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2007 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 2004 Recipient of a VICI Award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 1996 Recipient of the Sokol Postdoctoral Award for Biomedical Research
