Rob Wolthuis PhD

Rob Wolthuis holds a PhD on the regulation of signal transduction by Ras small GTPases. As a postdoctoral fellow, he studied the regulation of mitosis at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. Back in the Netherlands, he worked as a junior group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute/ Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam, focusing on cell cycle regulation by regulated protein destruction and cyclin-Cdk signaling.

Currently, he leads the Oncogenetics laboratories at the Cancer Center Amsterdam. He is also a Cancer Biology theme leader in the VUmc/AMC alliance. The Oncogenetics labs are using functional genomics, cell biological assays and drug-response patterns to pinpoint the function of cancer-predisposing gene alterations and design novel cancer therapies.