Jan van Hest

I am the chair of Bio-organic Chemistry and the scientific director of the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) at Eindhoven University of Technology. I am one of the main applicants of two gravitation programs on Functional Molecular Systems (2012) and Interactive Polymer Materials (2022), and I was awarded an ERC Advanced grant.  I have been elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019, and was awarded the Spinoza premium in 2020. My group’s focus is to develop well-defined compartments for nanomedicine and artificial cell research. We use a combination of techniques, ranging from polymer science to protein engineering to generate well-defined carriers and scaffolds for application in cancer treatment and immunology.

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