Daniel Peeper#
| Membership Number: | 4320 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://research.nki.nl/peeperlab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Chair of the Translational Research Board, Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 2012 - present Chair of Scientific Faculty Council, Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 2012 - present Head, Division of Molecular Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 2008 - present Affiliate Professor of Functional Oncogenomics, Free University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2005 - 2008 Associate professor and permanent staff member, Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 2002 - 2005 Assistant professor (AvL Fellow), Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 2000 - 2002 Research Associate, The Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 1995 - 2000 Postdoctoral fellow with Rene Bernards, Netherlands Cancer Institute
- 1994 - 1995 Postdoctoral fellow with Mark Ewen, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Melanoma initiation and progression
- Function-based genomic screens for therapeutic targets and predictive biomarkers
- Targeting cancer cell metabolism
- Developing in vivo preclinical platforms
- Resistance to targeted and immunotherapy
- Developing systems to integrate targeted and immunotherapy
- Breast cancer metastasis: mechanism and drug target identification
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) Outstanding Researcher Award
- 2009 Queen Wilhelmina Award by the Netherlands Cancer Society
- 2008 Elected EMBO Member
- 2007 Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) Jr. Researcher Award 2007
- 2006 VICI Award (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO))
- 2005 Elected EMBO Young Investigator (YIP)
