Manon Engeland's Biography

Manon Engeland, Professor, Maastricht University

Prof. dr. Manon van Engeland received her Master degree Biological Health Sciences in 1995 and her PhD in Molecular Cell Biology in 1999 at Maastricht University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2000-2001; Herman lab) she returned to Maastricht University and founded the ‘Cancer Pathology Laboratory’ of the dept. of Pathology. In 2003 she was appointed as assistant professor and in 2007 as associate professor. In March 2011, she was appointed as extraordinary professor ‘Pathobiology of cancer: specifically the role of epigenetics’ at Maastricht University. She is division leader Oncology at GROW-the School for Oncology and Developmental Biology since 2010. Her lab is focussing on the identification of early detection-, prognostic and predictive epigenetic markers for cancer and the functional validation of the tumor suppressor functions of the identified candidate markers.