Jan Cornelissen, MD, PhD
Faculty and Associates
Jan Cornelissen, MD, PhD, trained in medicine (1977-1985) at the State University Utrecht and specialized in internal medicine (1985-1990) and hematology (1990-1992). His clinical activities are especially focused on the treatment of patients with acute leukemia and other diseases of the blood. In 1994 he moved to Rotterdam, NL, to become head of the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation program at the Department of Hematology Erasmus University Medical Center. An important advancement in the field of post-transplant complications was the first study identifying high-risk recipients for post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease by molecular monitoring and the first demonstration of improved survival by anti-B-cell therapy. In 1999 he took a sabbatical period in Seattle, WA, USA, with Prof. Rainer Storb at the Fred Hutchinson’s Cancer Research Center. Currently he leads the clinical stem cell transplant program as well as a pre-clinical research-team dedicated to the development of umbilical cord blood transplants and improvement of thymopoiesis. Recent studies include demonstration of the survival benefit of allografting in the treatment of acute myeloid and lymphoid leukemia. He is a Professor of Hematology as of 2006 and currently an executive board member of the European group of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and the Dutch Society of Hematology. Within the cooperative Dutch-Belgian HOVON consortium, he leads the stem cell transplantation working group and acts as a PI of the ALL-studies and several transplantation studies.
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