As a Professor of Experimental and Preclinical Oncology I am fascinated how loss of adhesion triggers cancer progression.
Outside the lab I love culinary extravaganza’s and fast motor cycles. 

My work focusses on identifying the molecular features of ILC dormancy and recurrence. Supported by Lotte, I work on the PEARL project.  In my spare time I enjoy running, cooking and traveling. 

My work is centred around  finding new tumor suppressors for ILC development and delineating how Kaiso controls transcriptional activity in cancer.
Who needs a hobby when
you’re doing science?

I am a MSc student doing an internship in the DerksenLab. Supervised by Peter, I study the non-receptor tyrosine kinase FER and its oncogenic roles in basal-type carcinomas such as TNBC and HNSCC.

Sven is a departmental Technician who supports all research including that of the research lab. This includes multiple histological techniques.

Kevin is  supports all types of research in our department. This includes project and imaging support, data analysis and histological techniques.

Renee is  supports all types of preclinical mouse experiments in our group, as well as the  analyses on postmortem materials using histology