Paul P. Tak

Biography

Paul-Peter Tak received his medical degree cum laude from the Free University in Amsterdam and was trained as an internist and rheumatologist at Leiden University Medical Center, where he also received his PhD. He has worked as a scientist at the University of California San Diego for two years. He served as Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam (AMC) for 12 years. Currently he is Professor of Medicine at AMC, Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Rheumatology at Ghent University. Professor Tak has been a member of the European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) Scientific Committee and Executive Committee and a member of the Annual Meeting Planning Committee of the American College of Rheumatology. He further acted as chairman of the EULAR Standing Committee on Investigative Rheumatology as well as chairman of the Grant Advisory Council for EULAR’s Orphan Disease Programme on systemic sclerosis. He served on many editorial boards, including as co-editor of Arthritis & Rheumatism. He has published about 500 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a consultant to Augurex until 2011, when he became Senior Vice President and Global Head of Immuno-Inflammation R&D at GSK.

Research Interest

Biochemistry