Hans Clevers#
| Membership Number: | 2679 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.hubrecht.eu/onderzoekers/clevers-group http://hub4organoids.eu/about-us/team/hans-clevers |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Director Research of the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology
- 2012 - 2015 President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 2002 - Professor in Molecular Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht
- 2002 - 2012 Director of the Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1991 - 2002 Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Utrecht
- 1989 - 1991 Universitair Docent, Department of Clinical Immunology, University of Utrecht
- 1985 - 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow. Cox Terhorst Lab. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Oncology
- Molecular genetics
- Stem cells
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Catharijne-prize for medical research
- 2001 Award from the European Society for Clinical Investigation
- 2001 Spinoza Award of the Netherlands Reserach Council (NWO)
- 2004 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2005 Science and Society Prize, Amsterdam
- 2005 French honor of “Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur”
- 2005 Katharine Berkan Judd Award, New York
- 2006 Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize for Immunology and Cancer Research, Jerusalem
- 2008 Josephine Nefkens Prize for Cancer Research (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam)
- 2008 Meyenburg Cancer Research Award, Germany
- 2009 Queen Wilhelmina Dutch Cancer Society Award, Amsterdam
- 2010 United European Gastroenterology Federation (UEGF) Research Prize
- 2011 Ernst Jung Medical Award, Germany
- 2011 Kolff prize, Amsterdam
- 2012 Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC) Léopold Griffuel Prize, Paris
- 2012 William Beaumont prize of the American Gastroenterology Association
- 2012 Heineken Prize for Medicine
- 2012 Knight in the Order of the Nederlands' Lion
- 2013 The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2014 Massachusetts General Hospital Award in Cancer Research
- 2014 TEFAF Oncology Chair 2014, Maastricht
- 2014 Fellow of the AACR Academy
- 2014 Struyvenberg European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) medal
- 2014 National Icon of the Netherlands
- 2015 ISSCR-McEwen Award for Innovation
- 2016 Academy Professor Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy
- 2016 Kazemi Award for Research Excellence in Bio-Medicine
- 2016 Körber European Science Prize, Germany
- 2016 Swammerdam medaille (Amsterdam)
- 2016 The Ilse & Helmut Wachter award, Hamburg, Germany
- 2017 Princess Takamatsu Award of Merit, Tokyo
- 2018 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
