2008 Pinedo Cancer Care Prize Winner: Bob Löwenberg

Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam

Professor Löwenberg is Professor of Hematology and since 1990 has been Department Chair at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  Prof. Löwenberg's research activities are in the treatment and the pathobiology of leukemia, lymphoma and stem cell transplantation.  He is extensively published in the area of development diagnostics and therapeutics in leading scientific journals.  Prof. Löwenberg is on the editorial board of several international journals.  He was one of the founders and has served as President of the European Haematology Association (EHA). He has also served as president of the International Society of Experimental Hematology and the International Society of Hematology. In 2011, he was appointed editor of Blood.