About Prof. dr. H.M.W. Verheul MD, PhD
Introduction
Field(s) of expertise
Education and career
Henk Verheul received his medical degree at Erasmus MC and completed his internal medicine residency and medical oncology fellowship at the University Medical Center of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He obtained his PhD (cum laude) At the VU University, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, studying the activation of coagulation and angiogenesis in cancer. During his PhD, he was a research fellow at the Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA (Laboratory of Vascular Biology).
Career
As a medical oncologist, Henk Verheul participated in a Drug Development Fellowship Program at the Sydney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, USA before he started as chair of the department of Medical Oncology of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam in 2008. After shortly working at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2019-2022), he started as chair of the Medical Oncology of Erasmus MC in September 2022.