Scientific Advisory BoardHans Clevers
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Hans Clevers received his MD in 1984 and his PhD in 1985 from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. From 1985 to1989 he worked with Cox Terhorst at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He then returned to the Department of Clinical Immunology at the University of Utrecht and was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Immunology. Since 2002, he has been Professor of Molecular Genetics and the director of the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht.
Hans has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2000 and is the recipient of several awards, including the Dutch Spinoza Award in 2001, the Swiss Louis Jeantet Prize in 2004, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Katharine Berkan Judd Award in 2005, the Israeli Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize in 2006, and the Dutch Josephine Nefkens Prize for Cancer Research and the German Meyenburg Cancer Research Award in 2008. He obtained an ERC Advanced Investigator grant in 2008. He is Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur since 2005.
Hans has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2000 and is the recipient of several awards, including the Dutch Spinoza Award in 2001, the Swiss Louis Jeantet Prize in 2004, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Katharine Berkan Judd Award in 2005, the Israeli Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize in 2006, and the Dutch Josephine Nefkens Prize for Cancer Research and the German Meyenburg Cancer Research Award in 2008. He obtained an ERC Advanced Investigator grant in 2008. He is Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur since 2005.
