Stefan Willems

Associate Professor - medical

Biography

Dr Stefan Willems was trained in medicin (2003 cum laude Catholic University Leuven) with a PhD in molecular pathology (2010, Leiden University) and specialized in pathology (2011, LUMC). After postdoc positions at Harvard Medical School (Gygilab) and NKI (Bernardslab) he has been working as a pathologist with special interest in molecular pathology and diagnostics. He is co-director of the molecular pathology lab in the University Medical Center Utrecht. He is associate professor in pathology and head of the molecular head and neck cancer line within the UMC Utrecht (1 postdoc, 8 PhDs). He is also affiliated with the department of pathology of the NKI-AvL and performs here translational head and neck research. He is board member of the PALGA Foundation.

Contact

swille18@umcutrecht.nl

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Recent publications

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Recurrence prediction using circulating tumor DNA in patients with early-stage non-small cel lung cancer after treatment with curative inten A retrospective validation study Milou M.F. Schuurbiers, Christopher G. Smith, Koen J. Hartemink, Robert C. Rintoul, Davina Gale, Kim Monkhorst, Bas L.R. Mandos, Anna L. Paterson, Dan van den Broek, Nitzan Rosenfeld, Michel M. van den Heuvel, Robert Schouten, Sjaak Burgers, Joop van den Brand, Anne van Lindert, Marjolijn Ligtenberg, Monika Looijen-Salamon, Germaine Liebrechts-Akkerman, Stefan Willems, Gail Doughton, Wendy Qian, Tim Eisen, Ellen Moseley, Amanda Stone, Amy Gladwell, The Resa Green, Vicky Senior, Julia Knight, Andrea Ruiz-Valdepenas, Viona Rundell, Jerome Wulff, Jenny Castedo, Susan Harden, Helena Rayment, David Gilligan, Doris Rassl,
PLoS Medicine, 2025, vol. 22

MYB immunohistochemistry as a predictor of MYB::NFIB fusion in the diagnosis of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the head and neck Thomas J W Klein Nulent, Robert J J van Es, Gerben E Breimer, Matthijs H Valstar, Laura A Smit, Caroline M Speksnijder, Remco de Bree, Stefan M Willems
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, 2024, vol. 138, p.772-780

Optimising primary molecular profiling in non-small cell lung cancer R D Schouten, I Schouten, M M F Schuurbiers, V van der Noort, R A M Damhuis, E H F M van der Heijden, J A Burgers, N P Barlo, A S R van Lindert, K W Maas, J J G van den Brand, A A J Smit, J M W van Haarst, B van der Maat, E Schuuring, H Blaauwgeers, S M Willems, K Monkhorst, D van den Broek, M M van den Heuvel
PLoS ONE, 2024, vol. 19

Considerable interlaboratory variation in PD-L1 positivity for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in the Netherlands— A nationwide evaluation study Maaike Anna Hempenius, Bregje M. Koomen, Ivette A.G. Deckers, Sjoukje F. Oosting, Stefan M. Willems, Bert van der Vegt
Histopathology, 2024, vol. 85, p.133-142

Spatial correlation between in vivo imaging and immunohistochemical biomarkers Hilde J.G. Smits, Edwin Bennink, Lilian N. Ruiter, Gerben E. Breimer, Stefan M. Willems, Jan W. Dankbaar, Marielle E.P. Philippens
Translational Oncology, 2024, vol. 48

Clinicopathological Factors as Predictors for Establishment of Patient Derived Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Organoids W W B de Kort, R Millen, E Driehuis, L A Devriese, R J J van Es, S M Willems
Head and neck pathology, 2024, vol. 18