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Johannes Lukas "Hans" Bos (born 16 June 1950) is a Dutch biochemist and cancer researcher. He has been a professor of physiological chemistry at Utrecht University since 1991. He is also employed by the University Medical Center Utrecht.

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Career

Bos was born in Vlaardingen on 16 June 1950. [1] He studied biochemistry at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1969 and 1975. [2] In 1980 Bos obtained his title of Doctor at the University of Amsterdam under Piet Borst, with a thesis titled: "Structural analysis of yeast mitochondrial DNA. The region of the 21S ribosomal RNA gene". [1] He then started working under Alex van der Eb at Leiden University. In 1984 Bos started research on Ras mutations. [3] In 1986 Bos became a lector at Leiden University. In 1991 he was appointed professor of physiological chemistry at Utrecht University. [1]

In 2013 the Dutch Cancer Society presented an international "Dream Team" on cancer research, the team was led by Bos and Hans Clevers. [4] In 2015 Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant announced that Bos was the Dutch researcher who obtained most funds in the Netherlands during the previous ten years, obtaining over 31 million euro. [5]

Honours and distinctions

Bos was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 1996. [6] He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. [7] In 2014 Bos won the Josephine Nefkens Prize for Cancer Research. [2]

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