About Prof. Dr. Timon Vandamme
Prof. Vandamme is a senior consultant in digestive and neuroendocrine oncology at the Antwerp University Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Antwerp. In addition, he is the coordinator of NETwerk, an EURACAN – ENETS Center of Excellence for neuroendocrine cancer care. As clinician-researcher, he is performing research in circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA) in digestive and neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN).
Prof. Vandamme obtained a joint PhD at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and the Erasmus MC, the Netherlands on preclinical and translation evaluation of everolimus resistance and pancreatic NEN genomics. Currently, he is holder of a Senior Clinical Investigator (FKM) grant of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) at the University of Antwerp. Furthermore, he is the principal investigator (PI) of > 10 trials at the University Hospital Antwerp, both industry-sponsored and academic trials. He has authored numerous papers outside his PhD in journals such as Clinical Cancer Research, Lancet Oncology. He has peer-reviewed for different high-impact journals and is member of the editorial board of Endocrine-Related Cancer and Acta Gastro-enterologica Belgica.
He is currently acting secretary of the Dutch Belgian Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (DBNETS) and board member of the Belgian Group of Digestive Oncology (BGDO). In addition, he is active member of the EORTC GI Tract Cancer Group, the ENETS Translational Working Group and the Stand up against Cancer (Kom op tegen Kanker) Translational Expert Group.
Areas of interest
Digestive oncology
Neuro-endocrine oncology