Ron Stoop

Dr. Ron Stoop received his undergraduate training at Nymegen University in the Netherlands in 1987. He subsequently worked for several years in China as scholar and visiting scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and at Tsinghua University before joining Dr. Muming Poo's laboratory at Columbia University for his graduate studies in 1991.

He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996. After a postdoctoral research training in industry at Glaxo-Welcome Biomedical Research Institute in Geneva (1996-1998) and a first assistant-ship within the Medical Faculty of the University of Lausanne (Department of Cellular Biology and Morphology, 1998-2003), he joined the Centre for Psychiatric Neuroscience as a group leader in 2004.