Frederik Verweij MSc, PhD

Dr. Frederik J. Verweij, MSc, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Utrecht University. Frederik Verweij studied Biomedical Sciences at Utrecht University and moved to the Cancer Center Amsterdam (Amsterdam UMC) where he obtained his Ph.D. in virology in 2009. His postdoctoral training in cell biology was at Institut Curie and the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurosciences of Paris, funded by an EMBO long-term fellowship and Institut National du Cancer (INCa) fellowships respectively. In September 2021, he started as a group leader in the division of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Biophysics at Utrecht University where he also joined the Center for Living Technologies (CLT). In 2020, he received a KWF Dutch Cancer Society Young Investigator Grant, and in 2022 an NWO-VIDI grant.