Winette Van der Graaf

Medical Oncologist, member of staff at Dpt of medical oncology, University Medical Center in Groningen, the Netherlands, from 1992-2007 where she also did her PhD on “Circumvention of multidrug resistance on cancer”. In 2007 she moved to Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, was appointed as Professor of Medical Oncology and headed the Department of Medical Oncology. In 2015 she was appointed Team Leader Clinical and Translational Sarcoma Research at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden in London, United Kingdom. In 2018 she moved back to the Netherlands and was appointed at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. She is passionate about research and care in Sarcomas and Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) with cancer. She founded and chairs the Dutch AYA Cancer Network and is PI on several projects on AYA cancer national and international. She chaired the EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group from 2011-2014 and is the current President of the EORTC