Maarten van Lohuizen#
| Membership Number: | 4041 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nki.nl/divisions/molecular-genetics/van-lohuizen-m-group |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Professor of Biology and epigenetic regulation of stem cells, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (part time)
- 2002 - present Head Division of Molecular Genetics, NKI
- 2001 - 2007 Professor of Regulation of the cell cycle and oncogenesis, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (part time)
- 2000 - present Associate Professor/staff member, NKI
- 1995 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, NKI
- 1993 - 1995 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof dr I Herskowitz, department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, USA
- 1992 - 1993 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof dr A. Berns, Division of Molecular Genetics, NKI
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics/epigenetics
- Cancer biology
- Polycomb silencing
- Stem cells
- Regulation of differentiation
- High throughput transposon mutagenesis
- Chromatin profiling with transposon-reporters
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Cum Laude Masters degree
- 1992 Cum Laude PhD degree
- 1999 PIONEER grant from Dutch Organization for Scientific Research
- 2003 Elected Member of Centre for Biomedical Genetics
- 2004 Elected EMBO member
- 2008 Elected Member of the Cancer Genomics Centre, Netherlands Genomic Initative/NWO
- 2012 Elected Member Gravity Program 024.001.0281, Cancer Genomics Centre Netherlands
