Onno Kranenburg

Onno Kranenburg received his PhD in 1995 from Leiden University under supervision of Prof Alex van der Eb. After a post-doc in the Netherlands Cancer Institute, he moved to UMC Utrecht where he started his translational studies on the mechanism of action of anti-angiogenic drugs in the group of Prof Emile Voest. In 2003 he became Assistant Professor and PI at the Department of Surgery with Prof Inne Borel Rinkes and started to work on the mechanisms of colon cancer metastasis. In 2006 he became Associate Professor, head of the Surgery Lab and staff member at the Department of Surgery. In 2012 he became coordinator of the PhD research school Clinical and Translational Oncology, which he currently heads as director. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Surgical and Translational Tumor Biology and founded the Lab Translational Oncology, where he continues to design and test novel strategies for the prevention and treatment of colon cancer metastasis. He also founded and chairs the Utrecht Platform for Organoid Technology, now a central facility in the UMCU that stimulates organoid-based biomedical and clinical research. In recognition of his contribution to tranlational oncology research he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing China, in 2026.