I am a medical oncologist at the department of Medical Oncology of the UMCG, the Netherlands. I studied biochemistry and medicine. I obtained my PhD degree in 1989 with the thesis ‘Mechanisms and circumvention of cellular resistance to cisplatin”. During my Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) fellowship I worked on gene therapy topics in several labs in the Netherlands, the UK (Chester Beatty Laboratories, London) and Belgium (Ludwig Institute, Brussels) and I was trained as a medical oncologist.
My recent clinical research topics are to improve clinical outcome of patients with patients with locally advanced rectal cancer, (locally) advanced melanoma and to develop innovative molecular imaging techniques using whole body PET/CT on for example targets as PD-L1 and hormone receptors.