prof. dr. ir. F. (Floris) Foijer

Since 2023 - Full professor at European Institute for the Biology of Aging (ERIBA), University Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands

2017 - 2023 - Associate professor at European Institute for the Biology of Aging (ERIBA), University Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands   

2011 - 2017 - Assistant professor at European Institute for the Biology of Aging (ERIBA), University Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands                        

Genomic Instability in Development and Disease

2009 - 2011 - Postdoc at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

Novel tools to identify and visualize events that provoke chromosomal instability.

Advisor Prof. Dr. Allan Bradley.

Funding: Postdoctoral fellow sponsored by EMBO and the Dutch Cancer Society

2007 – 2009 - Postdoc at Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology, Boston, USA

Chromosomal instability as a primary cause of breast cancer?

Advisor Prof. Dr. Peter Sorger.

Funding: Postdoctoral fellow sponsored by the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF-fellow)

2000 – 2006 - PhD at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of Molecular Biology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Pocket-protein independent mechanisms of cell cycle control.

Advisor Prof. Dr. Hein te Riele

Funding: Dutch Cancer Society

 1995 – 2000 - BSc and MSc in biotechnology, specialty in molecular and cellular biology. Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.