Oscar Kuipers#
| Membership Number: | 6963 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.molgenrug.nl |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5596-7735 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscar-kuipers-0333695 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present founder and CSO of Omnicin Therapeutics
- 1999 - present Full Professor, Head of Dept. Molecular Genetics , Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- 1997 - 1999 Head of Genetics , NIZO Food Research, Dept. Biophysical Chemistry, Ede, the Netherlands
- 1990 - 1997 Postdoc and Project Leader, Molecular Genetics, NIZO Food Research, Dept. Biophysical Chemistry, Ede, the Netherlands
- 1988 EMBO Fellowhip Paris Orsay: Time resolved fluorescence studies with Dr. J. Gallay
- 1986 - 1990 PhD in Biochemnistry, Utrecht University: Probing the mechanism of pancreatic phospholipase A2 by protein engineering’ Promotor: Prof. Dr. G.H. de HaasCo-promotor: Prof. Dr. H.M. Verheij
Fields of Scholarship
- Bacterial cell engineering
- Synthetic biology
- Antibiotic development
- Bacterial physiology
- Phenotypic heterogeneity and bistability
- Genomics and transcriptomics
- Gene regulation in microbes
- Engineering modified peptides: RiPPs and NRPs
- Pathogenic bacteria
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Chairman of jury to appoint new members to Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2019 Royal decoration of Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion by King Willem Alexander
- 2019 Honorary Professor at Nankai University, China
- 2016 ISI Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
- 2015 Elected Executive Board Member, European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
- 2013 Elected Member, European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
- 2012 iGEM Team Groningen: European and World Champion 2012 Synthetic Biology
- (Kuipers was supervisor/coach/coordinator of the iGEM team Groningen from 2008-2015)
- 2011 Elected Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2011 Simon Stevin Meester Award (Science and Technology Award of STW, Dutch Science Council, the Netherlands) €500,000
