Rein Strijker

Biography

 Rein was, until recently, CEO of DNage BV and before that member of the Board of Management of Pharming Group N.V. and Chief Commercial Officer. He left that position (May 2010) a few months before the spin-off of DNage from Pharming. Before the acquisition of DNage by Pharming he was CEO of DNage. Prior to DNage, Mr. Strijker has held various management positions at Pharming, GenPharm and Genentech Inc. in the USA, Belgium and The Netherlands. These positions included senior functions in R&D, Intellectual Property management, licensing and business development, finance and general management. He was involved with and co-responsible for the development of two innovative biopharmaceutical products: Pompase (now called Myozyme and owned by Genzyme) for the treatment of Pompe’s disease and Ruconest (owned by Pharming) for the treatment of hereditary angioedema. He was also responsible for the development program of Prodarsan for the treatment of Cockayne Syndrome while at DNage. He served as the chairman of the board of Biofarmind, the Dutch foundation of pharmaceutical biotechnology and as a member of the supervisory board of the Life Science and Health program of the Netherlands’ department of Economic Affairs. He currently is member of the supervisory board of Biopartner Foundation Leiden and a member of the advisory board of the Leiden Bio Science Park. Dr Strijker received his Ph.D. at the State University of Groningen in the area of molecular biology.    

Research Interest

Molecular Biology