General information

Department of Pathology
Head of the department
VU University Medical Center
PO Box 7057
1007 MB  Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 20 4444772
fax: +31 20 4442964
e-mail: ga.meijer@vumc.nl

Research focus

Application of tumor profiling instruments to reduce the high death rates from gastrointestinal cancer (colorectal, gastric, esophageal).

Secondary prevention of GI cancer

• improved identification of high risk patients with premalignant lesions of the GI tract
• translating basic mechanisms of disease into diagnostic tools

Optimized therapy selection for GI cancer

• improved prediction of response on therapy 
• translating basic mechanisms of disease into therapeutic tools

Biosketch

Professor Meijer is a pathologist with a special interest in cancer research, focusing on the gastrointestinal tract. After finishing medical school at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam he completed his PhD on "Risk assessment in patients with colorectal adenomas". He leads a research group that focuses on translational research in colorectal and gastric cancer. Current research topics include genomic and proteomic tumor profiling for stratifying patients for individually tailored therapies. Furthermore, genomic and proteomic profiling of pre-malignant lesions is used for identification and validation of biomarkers for early cancer detection.  A major part of this program runs within the context of the Center for Translational Molecular Medicine ( www.ctmm.nl ). Professor Meijer is chair of the Department of Pathology at VU University Medical Center, leader of the Master Oncology program, director of the Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam and editor in chief of Cellular Oncology.

Publications

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