De Visser, Karin, PhD

Karin E. de Visser obtained her PhD at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam in the field of tumor immunotherapy. From 2003-2005 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. dr. Lisa Coussens at UCSF, where she developed an active interest in the interplay between the adaptive and innate immune system during cancer development. In 2005 returned to the NKI, where she expanded her research direction into the field of inflammation and mammary carcinogenesis. Currently she is senior group leader at the Division of Tumor Biology & Immunology, alongside her appointment as group leader at Oncode Institute and as professor of Experimental Immunobiology of Cancer at Leiden University. She is mainly interested in the mechanisms by which the immune system influences metastatic breast cancer. She received an ERC consolidator grant in 2014 and a NWO-VICI grant in 2019, she is recipient of the 2015 Metastasis Research Prize of the Beug Foundation, and since 2021 she is EMBO member.