Reuven Agami#
| Membership Number: | 4324 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://research.nki.nl/agamilab |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since June 2014 Head of Division of Biological Stress responses, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- Since 2009 Professor at the department of Genetics, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam University, The Netherlands
- 2008 - 2014 Full professor, Head of Division of Gene Regulation, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 2005 - 2008 Associated professor, Division of Tumor Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 2001 - 2005 Assistant professor Division of Tumor Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 1999 - 2001 Post-doctoral fellowship, Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 1993 - 1999 PhD, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- 1991 - 1993 Master, Department of Biochemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Fields of Scholarship
- RNA interference
- MicroRNAs
- Enhancer RNAs
- mRNA translation
- Amino acid metabolism
- p53
- cCllular senescence
- Tumor suppressor
- Oncogene
- Cancer
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Awarded ERC-advanced project on enhancer RNAs
- 2011 Awarded NWO-VICI grant on regulation of translation in cancer
- 2010 ESCI Award Winner 2010, Basic/Translational Research
- 2009 Elected member of the central for biomedical genetics (CBG)
- 2008 Awarded ERC-starting project on microRNA regulation
- 2008 Elected member of EMBO
- 2007 Awarded The Dr. Joseph Steiner Prize, Switzerland 2007 in Biel
- 2006 Elected member of the dutch young academy (DJA-KNAW)
- 2004 EMBO young investigator award
- 2004 honored a VIDI grant
- 2004: Awarded the European Young Investigator Award (EURYI)
- 2002 Elected fellow of the central for biomedical genetics (CBG)
- 2001 Awarded the Netherlands Cancer Institute (AVL) award
- 1999 Awarded the EMBO long-term fellowship
