| Jan Hoeijmakers | ||||
prof. dr. Jan Hoeijmakers is als hoogleraar Moleculaire Genetica verbonden aan het medisch centrum Erasmus, Rotterdam. Zijn onderzoek richt zich op herstelmechanismen van DNA. Zijn team heeft de eerste DNA herstel-genen gekloond. Jan Hoeijmakers kreeg in 1995 de Louis Jeantet Prijs en in 1999 de Spinoza onderscheiding. Jan Hoeijmakers studied biology at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands. His Ph.D. work on trypanosomes at the University of Amsterdam (supervisor P. Borst), resolved the molecular basis for antigenic variation by which trypanosomes escape from immune surveillance and cause sleeping sickness. In 1981, he joined the Institute of Genetics of the Erasmus University (head D. Bootsma) to work on DNA repair in mammals. His team cloned the first of many subsequent human DNA-repair genes, discovered the strong evolutionary conservation of DNA repair systems, elucidated the basis of several human repair (and basal transcription) syndromes, generated a large number of DNA-repair mouse mutants that provided insight into the etiology of human repair syndromes and discovered a link between repair, transcription and ageing. A new line of research explores the organization of DNA repair and transcription in living cells. Recently, his group generated the first mouse mutant with intrinsic defects in the biological clock. His team owns several patents in genome stability. In 1993, he became the Professor of Molecular Genetics, and since 1999 he has been the head of the Institute of Genetics at the Erasmus University. Het
risico van ademhalen; DNA en veroudering Jan Hoeijmakers nam op zaterdag 24 september als panellid deel aan de discussie. relevante links: |
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