Dr Lukas Hawinkels

Dr Lukas Hawinkels

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

Dr. Lukas Hawinkels is an Associate Professor and Head of the research laboratory Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He obtained his Master's degree in Biopharmaceutical Sciences in 2003, followed by a PhD project on cell-cell interaction in the gastrointestinal tumor microenvironment. Next, he performed a postdoc project on the role of TGF-β (receptors) in cancer progression at the ten Dijke group at the department of molecular cell biology. In 2011 he was awarded a personal grant to start his independent research line on how interactions between cancer cells and CAFs influence metastatic spread. Dr. Hawinkels continued this research as an assistant professor at the research laboratory Gastroenterology-Hepatology in 2015. Since 2018 he is heading the research laboratory Gastroenterology-Hepatology. The current focus of his research team is on understanding how fibroblasts influence IBD and gastrointestinal cancer progression.

Updated 7 August 2023