C.H.M. (Carolien) van Deurzen, Associate Professor

Since my cum laude dissertation in 2009, my research continued to be focused on breast cancer. In 2013, I won a four-year postdoctoral fellowship, which enabled me to establish my own research line in breast carcinogenesis. Besides, I studied the role of the micro-environment on breast cancer progression and treatment response.

As a clinical pathologist and researcher, specialized in breast pathology, I’m involved in both patient care and translational research. I experience this combination as a good position to define and investigate several clinically relevant research topics.

• Precursor lesions of breast cancer, mainly ductal carcinoma in situ
• Tumor micro-environment
• Biomarkers (HER2-low, PD-L1)
• Triple negative breast cancer
• Epidemiological research with PALGA (Dutch National Pathology Registry) data

2003: MD, University Medical Center Utrecht 
2009: Clinical Pathologist and PhD (cum laude), University Medical Center Utrecht
2010: Research fellowship: Nottingham Breast Institute, Nottinham, United Kingdom 
2019: Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam 
2019: Principal Investigator, Department of Pathology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam 

Overall, I published over 165 international peer reviewed articles, several articles in national and international newspapers and websites and I co-authored the latest edition of the WHO classification Tumours of the Breast. 

Publication overview in Pubmed

Overview of research output in Pure

• Medical School, Bachelor, plenary lectures and skills education in breast pathology 
• Medical School, Master, general pathology education
• Medical Technology, Plenary lecture including the interface of pathology and technology 
• Medical specialists in training for oncology, surgery, radiotherapy: basics in breast pathology  
• Daily supervison of Pathologists in Training 

 

• Research Committee of PALGA, chair
• Patient care committee, Department of Pathology, chair
• Dutch Breast Cancer Research Group (BOOG), working group on diagnostics, member
• European Organisation of Research and Treatment of Cancer, International Male Breast Cancer Steering Group, member
• Dutch breast pathology expertise group, member
• Heriditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Netherlands (HEBON), advisor 

2010: Best thesis of the year, awarded by the Society of Medical Oncology

2013-2017: Fellowship Erasmus MC

2018: Role of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes during breast carcinogenesis, Aspasia,

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