Peter J.F. Snijders, Netherlands
VU University
Dr. Peter Snijders gained his degree in biology in 1987 from the Catholic University in Nijmegen. He holds a doctoral degree (cum laude) in Medicine from VU University in Amsterdam. From 1993 to 1997 he was post-doctoral senior fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Currently, he is Clinical Scientist in Molecular Pathology in the department of Pathology at the VU University medical center, Amsterdam. Since 1988, he has focused on studying HPV-mediated carcinogenesis and development of biomarker tests for HPV-induced precancers and cancers. He has published over 350 papers and (co)developed HPV and methylation markers test that are nowadays increasingly applied.