Ada Kruisbeek

Biography

Ada Kruisbeek is responsible for the overall scientific agenda of DCPrime. She has more than 30 years of managerial experience in science and business, and is an expert in immunology whose career has been dedicated to immunity against cancer, first in academic settings, and later in industry. Ada Kruisbeek worked at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, from 1978 until 1992, at the forefront of research that revealed how the immune system develops. She then became Head of the Department of Immunology at the Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoekhuis (NKI-AVL) in Amsterdam from 1992 till 2001. She published over 140 papers, many of which appeared in peer-reviewed top-journals, and she served on multiple advisory boards of national and international scientific agencies, research institutes and companies. In 2001, she moved to industry and became Senior Vice-President Research at Crucell BV, responsible for building up the cancer antibody pipeline. In 2004, when Crucell closed its oncology programs, Ada moved to the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam and became Director of the Cancer Center Amsterdam, founded the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) in 2005, DCPrime in 2006, and the Life Sciences Center Amsterdam in 2007.  

Research Interest

 Oncology