Daniel Peeper, PhD
Founder / Scientist

Daniel Peeper, PhD, is professor in Functional Oncogenomics heading the Department of Molecular Oncology & Immunology and chairing the Research Faculty Council Board at the NCI, where he also set up and chaired (2014-1019) the Translational Research Board. He has received several awards, including a KWF Queen Wilhelmina Award and a Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) Outstanding Researcher Award. He is an elected Member of Oncode, EMBO and Academia Europaea and serves on several Boards, including that of the European Association for Cancer Research.

Peeper studied Medical Biology at the VU University Amsterdam and received his PhD in the laboratory of Alex van der Eb at the University of Leiden (1994), for his work on adenoviral oncoproteins and cell cycle proteins. He received his postdoctoral training in the laboratories of Mark Ewen (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston) and René Bernards (NCI). 

His lab has now focused its energy on functional screens to identify new IO therapeutics, both in tumor and immune cells.