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Born in 1961, became doctor of medicine in 1986 and specialized in Radiation Oncology in 1991 at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. In 1995 he received his PhD degree in Paris on the Radiation Sensitivity of human tumour cells. From 1993 to 1999 he was appointed, as Radiation Oncologist in the departement of the University Hospital Gasthuisberg in Leuven (KUL). Since 2000, he has held the position as seated Professor in Radiation Oncology at the University of Maastricht, Head of the department for Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital of Maastricht, Medical Director of the MAASTRO CLINIC, Division leader of the Research institute GROW and more recently he has also been appointed as Professor of Functional Imaging in Radiation Oncology.
Over the past thirteen years, he has received many awards which includes the 1991 Fullbright-Haze Award for research in the US, the 1993 ESTRO Varian Award, the 1995 Young Scientist Award of the Radiation Research Society (RRS), the 1996 Fellowship of Flemish Funds for Scientific Research and two prizes once in 1996 and again in 2002 from the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine.

Complimenting these activities on both a European and International basis, he is a member of numerous scientific societies and a key contributor at various (inter)national scientific committees (e.g. ESTRO, CKTO, KWF, EU). Continuous involvement as a principal investigator in his specialized area has lead him to head more than 17 research grants and publish more than 115 peer reviewed papers with over 300 conferences contributions. Besides projects supported by cancer foundations and EU, he had/has many collaborations with pharma and imaging industry. He supervised 11 PhD projects, is author and co-author of > 110 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is (co)inventor at four patents.

His main professional interests are directed towards translational research in Radiation Biology with a specific focus on tumour hypoxia, functional imaging (CT-PET) and lung cancer. He also has a recent interest in Systems Biology applied to Radiation Biology. In addition, he has focused on using key strategic management processes within his field and has created and implemented a version of the Balanced Score Card model for training and research purposes.

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Professor Luc J.I. Zimmermann was born in 1959 in Belgium. He graduated as MD in 1984 at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and did his residency in Pediatrics at the same university, in the University Hospital Gasthuisberg Leuven, Belgium (1984-1989). He trained as a Fellow in Neonatology at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto Perinatal Fellowship Program in Toronto, Canada from 1989 to 1992. From 1992 to 2003 he was a staff Neonatologist at the Erasmus Medical Center – Sophia in Rotterdam, where he was Chief of the Division of Neonatology a.i. from 2000 to 2003. His PhD thesis (in 1995) was titled "Regulation of CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase in fetal type II cells". In 2003 he became a staff neonatologist at the Academic Hospital Maastricht, in 2004 Professor in Pediatrics and in 2005 Chief of the Division of Neonatology. In 2006 he became Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Residency Program in Pediatrics. In July 2006 he took over as Division leader in GROW from Carlos E. Blanco.

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Professor Joep P.M. Geraedts was born in 1948. He studied general biology at the Catholic University in Nijmegen and received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 1969 and 1972 respectively. In 1975 he obtained a PhD from the University of Leiden on the thesis ‘Constitutive heterochromatin as a marker for chromosomal studies in human somatic cells and spermatozoa’. In 1985 he was registered as SMBWO investigator human genetics. From 1972 until 1975 he held a position as junior scientist at the Academic Hospital Leiden. From 1975 until 1982 he was senior scientist (assistant professor) at the University of Leiden. In October 1982 he was appointed full professor of genetics and Cell Biology at Maastricht University. Since 1983 he is also director of the Foundation for Clinical Genetics in Maastricht. In 2003 this centre was integrated and became a department of the University Hospital. Joep Geraedts is head of this department, which has the only PGD license in the Netherlands.

Joep Geraedts has served as chairman of the Dutch Society of Human Genetics and at the moment he is chairman of the Society of Dutch Clinical Genetics Centres.

At the European level he is actively involved in the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. For many years he has been co-ordinator of the Special Interest Group Reproductive Genetics and steering member of the ESHRE PGD Consortium. Since 2005 he is chairman elect of ESHRE.

Joep Geraedts is author, co-author or editor of more than 160 PubMed articles, 15 books and more than 50 chapters in books. Furthermore he is associate editor of Human Reproduction Update and on the advisory and editorial boards of various societies and scientific journals. His research is aimed at various aspects of clinical and reproductive genetics.

He has been leader of the division Developmental Biology since its start in 1984.

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Professor Frans C.S. Ramaekers was trained as a chemist at the University of Nijmegen, specialized in Biochemistry at the University of Nijmegen and Pharmaco-chemistry at Organon, and graduated in 1977. He received his PhD degree in 1981 at the University of Nijmegen on basis of a thesis on the role of the cytoskeleton in cell differentiation. From 1981 to 1990 he was appointed as associate professor at the Department of Pathology of the University Hospital in Nijmegen, where studies on the application of cytoskeletal elements in cancer diagnosis were performed. In 1989 he received the Bristol-Meyers Oncology Award for this work. In June 1989 he was appointed professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the Maastricht University and became chairman of the Department of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics. At the moment he is president of the European Cytoskeleton Forum, member of the board of the Dutch Society for Oncology, of the Federation of Medical Scientific Societies and of the Society of Experimental Biology (UK), Dutch representative of the European Tissue Culture Society, and member of the editorial board of several international journals, including Cytometry, Applied Immuno-histochemistry, Molecular Biology Reports, and Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers and over 50 book contributions and national papers. He is scientific director of MUbio Products B.V.
Frans Ramaekers was appointed as scientific director ad interim of GROW - School for Oncology and Developmental Biology on March, 1^st, 2009.