Ruud H. Brakenhoff PhD

Ruud H. Brakenhoff, Ph.D. is a molecular biologist and chairs the Head and Neck Cancer Biology and Immunology laboratory at the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery within Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands. He studied medicine and graduated from Radboud University Nijmegen. The same university awarded him 1992 the Ph.D. title. From 1992 his research interest focused on the molecular pathogenesis of cancer, and he was appointed in 2005 as a professor of head and neck cancer genomics. Research questions are ultimately aimed at the improvement of diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer, and there is a close interaction with the clinic. He has (co)authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers, and introduced models of head and neck carcinogenesis in the literature. His main interest is in fundamental and translational research, studying head and neck cancer in models as well as human patients, and bringing new molecular findings to the clinic.