Winand Dinjens, PhD
Principal Investigator
1975-1982: Studied biology at the Catholic University of
Nijmegen;
1982-1985: Research assistant, Dept. of Immunobiology, Central
Laboratory of the
Netherlands Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (CLB),
Amsterdam;
FUNGO project: "The role of adenosine on the differentiation of
human T-lymphocytes and thymocytes";
1985-1988: Ph.D. study, Dept. of Pathology, University of
Maastricht;
Thesis: "Distribution of adenosine deaminase complexing protein
(ADCP) in normal and neoplastic cells,"
Promotors: Prof. Dr. F.T. Bosman, Prof. Dr. P. Meera Khan
(University of Leiden);
1988-1991: Postdoc, Dept. of Pathology, University of
Maastricht;
project: "Stem cells in colorectal cancer";
1991-1996: Postdoc, Dept. of Pathology, Erasmus University,
Rotterdam;
project: "Stem cells in colorectal cancer";
1996 - present: Head of the "Molecular Diagnostics" unit at the Dept. of
Pathology, University Hospital, Rotterdam;
Research projects: "Prognostic markers in
pheochromocytomas,"
"Molecular Genetics of oesophageal adenocarcinomas,"
the Rotterdam Oesophageal tumor study group.