Johannes CM van der Loo, PhD
Title
Director, Vector Production Facility; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Email
Han.vanderloo@cchmc.org
Phone
513-475-4093 (Ext. 1)
Fax
513-221-1891
Bio
Dr. van der Loo joined the Division of Experimental Hematology at the Children's Hospital Research Foundation in 2002. He came from the University of Minnesota where he was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine and faculty member of the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate School. He was a member of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center and Stem Cell Institute. Dr. van der Loo earned a bachelor's and master's degree in Biology at the State University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He earned his PhD degree at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Howard Hughes Institute at the University of Indiana, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dr. van der Loo is the Director of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's Vector Production Facility and Viral Vector Core.
Credentials
BS: Biology, State University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1983.
MS: Medical Biology, State University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1987.
PhD: Hematology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1995.
Position History
2002– Director, Vector Production Facility and Assistant Professor, Division of Experimental Hematology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH
1998–2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN
1994–1998 Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
1989–1994 PhD Student, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1987–1989 Research Associate, National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Hygiene, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
Research
1) Hematopoietic stem cell biology
2) Homing and engraftment of ex vivo manipulated hematopoietic cells
3) Production of viral vectors for gene transfer and optimization of gene transfer into primitive human hematopoietic cells
Publications, Most Recent
Connect to Han van der Loo's publications on PubMed
Professional Organization Memberships
- Member American Society of Gene Therapy
- Member International Society for Experimental Hematology
- Member American Society of Hematology
- Ad hoc reviewer, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Leukemia, Experimental Hematology
- Member Biosafety Committee Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Related Areas
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