Jiri Lukas#
| Membership Number: | 4789 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cpr.ku.dk |
Present and Previous Positions
- May 2012 - present Executive Director
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
- University of Copenhagen
- 2005 - 2012 Director and Head of Research; Centre for Genotoxic Stress Research; Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark(1993 - 2005) Senior scientist & group leader; Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1991-1992 Researcher; Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic
- 1990-1991 Researcher; Masaryk Institute of Oncology, Brno, Czech Republic
- 1990, 1991 Department of Biochemistry (Paul Nurse lab), Oxford, UK; cell cycle regulation
- 1992 - 1993 Differentiation Program (Giulio Draetta lab), EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany; cell cycle regulation, mechanisms of cancer
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanisms of genome integrity maintenance and their aberrations in cancer
- Cell cycle regulation
- Molecular pathology of the DNA damage responses
Honours and Awards
- 1995 Young Danish Cancer Researcher Prize
- 2002 Elected EMBO Member
- 2002 Alfred Benzons Foundation Prize
- 2003 Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize
- 2003 G. J. Mendel Honorary Medal
- 2008 Danish Cancer Society Senior Research Prize
- 2010 Danish Society for Cancer Research Award
- 2005 Honorary member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
- 2012 Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2014 Elected member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2014 Leopold Griffuel Award
- 2016 Fernström Foundation Grand Nordic Prize
