Jacques Neefjes#
| Membership Number: | 3484 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Head Division of Cell Biology II, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- Since 1999 Extraordinary professor at the LUMC chair of “Antigen Presentation and Processing”
- 2007 - 2011 Deputy Scientific Director, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 2009 - 2011 Visiting professor at the Centre for Immune Regulation of the University of Oslo, Norway
- 1998 - 2008 Head Division of Tumor Biology, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 2000 - 2003 Dean Graduate School Oncology Amsterdam (OOA)
- 1993 - 1997 Staff member, Division of Cellular Biochemistry, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 1992 - 1993 EMBO long-term fellowship at the Deutsche Krebs Forschungs Zentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg
- 1991 - 1992 Visiting scientist at the laboratory of Drs C Benoit and D Mathis at the Institut de Chimie Biologique, Strasbourg Fr
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell biology
- High throughput screenings
- Biophysics
- Chemistry
- Cancer
- Immunology
- Molecular medicine
- Chemical biology
- Systems biology
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Recipient ERC Advanced Grant
- 2010 Elected member European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2006 Elected member EMBO
- 1996 Recipient NWO Pioneer Grant
- 1996 Golden Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society KNCV
- 1992 EMBO long term fellowship
- 1990 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Award
- Honorary Lectures
- 2012 Ruysch lecture AMC, Amsterdam
- 2012 Beatty Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
