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Scientific Advice & Guidance

Scientific Advisory Board visit to our Center in 2023
Scientific Advisory Board visit to our Center in 2023

Scientific Advisory Board

Every few years, we invite top scientists from around the world to visit and provide advice on the scientific strategy of our Center.

The board discusses science with our group leaders and interacts with all levels of our Center during their on-site visit. They then provide feedback to our Directors, which is fed back to relevant stakeholders in our community (committee representatives, etc) to foster growth and continued excellence.

Find out more about previous Scientific Advisory Boards (SAB) below.

The board is highly impressed by the overall scientific productivity and quality of research in the Center, as well as the generally positive atmosphere of the research environment... The overall technology transfer system, productivity, and approach taken by the VIB Innovation and Business development team are impressive. The financial, technical, and business support are excellent and the members of the SAB have not seen this high-quality technology transfer in other research institutes and academic centers.
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SAB 2023

SAB 2023

Name
Liqun Luo
Function
Department of Biology, Stanford University, US
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Chair of the Board
Name
Gaia Novarino
Function
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Name
Casper Hoogenraad
Function
Cell Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands & Genetech, US
Name
Amita Sehgal
Function
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, US
Name
Richard Morimoto
Function
Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, US
Name
Alison Goate
Function
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, US
Name
Don Cleveland
Function
University of California San Diego, US
Name
Elena Gracheva
Function
Yale School of Medicine, US
Name
Sten Linnarsson
Function
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

SAB 2019

Name
Matthew Freeman
Function
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK
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Chair of the Board
Name
Ryan Watts
Function
Denali, South San Francisco, US
Name
Ulrike Kutay
Function
Biochemistry, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Name
Craig Montell
Function
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Name
Alison Goate
Function
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, US
Name
Ana Pombo
Function
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Name
Casper Hoogenraad
Function
Cell Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands & Genentech, South San Francisco, US
Name
Sheena Radford
Function
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds

SAB 2018

Name
Matthew Freeman
Function
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK
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Chair of the Board
Name
Claude Desplan
Function
New York University, USA
Name
Eileen Furlong
Function
Genome Biology Department, EMBL Heidelberg
Name
Richard Morimoto
Function
Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA
Name
Matthijs Verhage
Function
Department of Functional Genomics, VU University Medical Center and Faculty of Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Name
Christine Klein
Function
Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Germany
Name
Morgan Sheng
Function
Genentech, US

SAB 2015

Name
Stephen Cohen
Function
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore
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Chair of the Board
Name
Matthew Freeman
Function
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK
Name
Ruediger Klein
Function
Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, München & Cellzome, Heidelberg, Germany
Name
Kristian Helin
Function
Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Denmark

SAB 2013

Name
Eric Karran
Function
Alzheimer’s Research UK & Institute of Neurology, University of Central London
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Chair of the Board
Name
Hugo Bellen
Function
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Name
Mina Bissell
Function
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
Name
Stephen Cohen
Function
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore
Name
Matthew Freeman
Function
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK
Name
Christine Klein
Function
Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Luebeck, Germany
Name
Ruediger Klein
Function
Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, München & Cellzome, AG, Heidelberg, Germany
Name
Ross L. Levine
Function
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York
Name
Linda Partridge
Function
MPI for the Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Name
Erin Schuman
Function
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany