Johannes Van Den Anker MD, PhD

Prof. Johannes van den Anker received his MD and PhD from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since 2002 he has been the Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Experimental Therapeutics and the Evan and Jones Chair in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, and Professor of Pediatrics, Integrative Systems Biology, Pharmacology & Physiology at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. His expertise is in developmental, neonatal and paediatric pharmacology. He has major awards from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and leads one of only four NICHD-funded Research Centers Specialized in Pediatric Developmental Pharmacology. He has published over 300 peer reviewed papers and is member of the Editorial Board of several clinical pharmacology journals. In 2014 he was appointed as Eckenstein-Geigy Professor of Paediatric Pharmacology at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

He is currently member of the Committee on Drugs of the American Academy of Pediatrics, President-elect of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and President-elect of the European Society for Developmental, Perinatal and Paediatric Pharmacology.