About Our Speaker

Dr. Peter J.M. Valk received his PhD degree in 1999 at the Department of Hematology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, on the identification of novel leukemia oncogenes using retroviral mutagenesis (with Prof. Dr. B. Löwenberg).  He worked as a research fellow awarded by the Dutch Cancer Society in the Department of Hemato-oncology  at the Children’s Hospital in Boston (with Prof. Stuart Orkin). In 2000, Dr. Valk returned to the Department of Hematology at the Erasmus University Medical Center as Associate Professor and Head of the Hemato-oncology Laboratory (cytology and molecular diagnostics – reference laboratory in HOVON-AMLSG-NCRI clinical trials).