Michiel Van Der Heijden

Biography

Michiel van der Heijden graduated from medical school at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in 2002. His research experience has been focused on molecular biology and included an internship of one year (1999) at the department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland(Baltimore, USA) and a 2-year (2002-2004) fellowship in the lab of Scott Kern, Sydney Kimmel Cancer Center Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore-USA). He successfully defended his thesis "The Fanconi anemia/BRCA2 pathway in pancreatic cancer" on September 15, 2005. He then started his residency in internal medicine/medical oncology. This residency was interrupted from 2009-2011 when he joined the lab of Rene Bernards as a postdoc, working on molecular resistance to targeted therapy in breast and colon cancer. He was one of the applicants on a 4-year project grant from the Dutch cancer foundation (KWF): "Identification of genetic modifiers of sensitivity to mTOR pathway inhibition in breast cancer". April 1, 2013, he graduated as a medical oncologist and started a combined clinical/research position at the Netherlands Cancer Institute / Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, specializing in urological cancers with a main focus on bladder cancer.

Research Interest

Urological cancers with a main focus on bladder cancer.