Prof. dr. Sibrand Poppema and Prof. dr. ir. Hans van Duijn join the INCAS³ Supervisory Board

Prof. dr. Sibrand Poppema (Emmen, 1949), studied medicine in Groningen and specialized in pathology. In 1979 he earned his Ph.D. degree in Immunopathology of Hodgkin’s disease, also at the University of Groningen. For a year after his Ph.D., he worked as a research fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Between 1980 and 1987 he worked as a pathologist at the University of Groningen, and as of 1985 he became JK de Cock Professor of Immunopathology. From 1987 until 1995 he was Professor of Pathology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Director of Laboratory Medicine at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Canada. In 1995 he returned to Groningen where he became Head of the Department of Pathology. From 1999 until 2008 he was Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences and from 2005 he became Vice-President of the University Medical Center Groningen. In 2007 he was appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Since September 1 2008, Poppema is President of the University of Groningen and recently his appointment was prolonged until 2016.

Prof. dr.ir. Hans van Duijn’s biography