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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, 1st, 2009.