Daniel S. Peeper PhD

Daniel Peeper is the Head of the Department of Molecular Oncology and chairs both the Scientific Faculty Council and the Translational Research Board at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI). He holds a professorship in Functional Oncogenomics at the VU University Medical Center (VUmc).

Peeper studied Medical Biology at the VU University and received his PhD in the laboratory of Alex van der Eb at the University of Leiden (1994), for his work on adenoviral oncoproteins and cell cycle proteins. He received his postdoctoral training in the laboratories of Mark Ewen (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston) and René Bernards (NKI). In 2002, Peeper became Assistant Professor and three years later Associate Professor at NKI. Also in that year, he was elected as an EMBO Young Investigator.