Jeroen Pasterkamp#
| Membership Number: | 6872 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.jeroenpasterkamplab.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1631-6440 |
| Twitter: | @JeroenPasterk |
| Linkedin: | https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jeroenpasterkamp |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Chair domain Research, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2022 - present Co-lead and UMC Utrecht coordinator of the National Growth fund application ‘CPBT’ (https://www.nationaalgroeifonds.nl/projecten-ronde-3/centrum-voor-proefdiervrije-biomedische-translatie
)
- 2020 - present Head of the Department of Translational Neuroscience, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands (https./www.translationalneuroscience.nl)
- 2017 - present Chair of the UMC Utrecht Brain Center, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands (https://www.umcutrecht.nl/en/research/center/brain-center)
- 2015 - present Founder and director of the MIND facility (iPSC, brain organoids, 3D tissue imaging (https://www.mindresearchfacility.nl)
- 2013 - present Full professor of Translational Neuroscience (HL1), UMC Utrecht & Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- 2018 Visiting professor, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- 2004 - present Principal Investigator, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands (https://www.jeroenpasterkamplab.com)
- 2000 - 2004 Post-doc, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Baltimore, USA
- 1996 - 2000 PhD student, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (KNAW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases
- Midbrain dopamine system development
- 3D microscopy
- Cell and molecular neurobiology
- Brain organoid generation
- Neural circuit development
- iPSC-based modelling of microglia
- iPSC-based modelling of the neuromuscular system
- Axon biology
- Non-coding RNA in neural development and disease
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Gravitation Award ‘BRAINSCAPES’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- 2019 Visiting professor University of Turin, Italy
- 2017 Member H1 Connect (F1000Prime, section neurodevelopment)
- 2015 VICI, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- 2006 VIDI, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- 2005 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
- 2005 HFSP Young Investigator Award
- 2004 VENI, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- 2004 Dan Nathans Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
- 2001 HFSP Long-Term Fellowship
- 2000 Dutch Talent Fellowship, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
