LAMMERS, Twan
Prof. Dr. Dr. Twan Lammers received a D.Sc. in Radiation Oncology from the University of Heidelberg in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Utrecht in 2009. In the same year, he started the Nanomedicine and Theranostics group at RWTH Aachen University. In 2014, he was promoted to full professor of medicine at the RWTH Aachen University Clinic. His group aims to individualise and improve disease treatment by combining drug targeting with imaging. To this end, image-guided (theranostic) drug delivery systems are being developed, as well as materials and methods for monitoring tumour growth, angiogenesis, inflammation, fibrosis and metastasis. He has received numerous grants and awards, including ERC Starting, Consolidator and Proof-of-Concept grants, the CRS Young Investigator Award, the Adritelf International Award, the Belgian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences International Award and the JNB Trailblazer Award. He is currently president of the Controlled Release Society and a council member of the European Society for Molecular Imaging. He serves on the editorial boards of 10 journals and is an associate editor for JCR, DDTR and MIB. He has been included in the Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited researchers since 2019.
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