BIOGRAPHY

Frank J.M.F. Dor was born on April 15th, 1976 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. From 1988-1994 he attended the Gymnasium Erasmianum in Rotterdam. After graduation, he studied Medicine at the Rijks Universitair Centrum Antwerpen, Belgium. In 1995, he started his medical studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). During the second year of medical school, he became interested in research and started a project at the department of Chemical Pathology (Prof. Dr H.G. van Eijk), leading to his first publications.

Immunology became favorite; following electives at the department of Immunology (Prof. Dr R. Benner), he got involved in a research project on endocrine autoimmune diseases (Prof. Dr H.A. Drexhage).

In 1998, he was offered the opportunity to work in the Royal Free Hospital in London, UK, for some months at the department of Chemical Pathology & Human Metabolism (Prof. Dr. A.F. Winder).

In the same year he became a student research fellow at the departments of Cardio-thoracic Surgery (Prof. Dr A.J.J.C. Bogers) and Transplantation (Prof. Dr W. Weimar) of the University Hospital Rotterdam, where he was involved in research investigating heart valve transplantation in a rat model until 2001.

In 1999, he received a Fujisawa-Grant for a clinical training in (Transplantation) Surgery at the Universitätsklinik Ulm, Germany (Dr M. Storck). Later, in 2000, he visited the Philipps Universitätsklinik Marburg for a clinical training in General and Vascular Surgery (Prof. Dr M. Rothmund / Prof. Dr M. Storck).

He received the Hippocrates Study Prize in 2000 because of "excellent scientific research fulfilled during the medical education”.

After he graduated cum laude from Medical School in November 2001, he started his PhD project in January 2002 at the Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA (Prof. Dr D.K.C. Cooper / Prof. Dr D.H. Sachs). Here, he performed his experimental work until January 2004 with financial support of the Ter Meulen Fund of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Prof. Michael-van Vloten Fund, and the Netherlands-America Foundation.

During this period, he received a Trainee Award of the Basic Sciences Symposium 2003 of the Transplantation Society, and the Young Investigators Award of the American Transplant Congress 2004 of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) awarded the final scientific report at the end of his Fellowship with the predicate cum laude.

In April 2004, he started his surgical residency at the Department of Surgery of the Erasmus MC Rotterdam (Prof Dr J.N.M. IJzermans / Prof Dr H.J. Bonjer) and continued his training in surgery at the Sint Franciscus Gasthuis Rotterdam (Dr A.J.H. Kerver) in April 2006.

In 2005, he was elected as a member of the Editorial Boards of the ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs) and the Internet Journal of Surgery.

In the same year, he was appointed as a teacher at the Erasmus MC Educational Institute for ER nurses, a position he fulfilled until 2009.

He was appointed as Managing Editor of “Frontiers in Bioscience” in 2006, and is currently editing a special issue of the Journal, entitled “Transplantation: current developments and future directions”.

He was also appointed as Editorial Board Member of the journal "Xenotransplantation" in 2006. In 2007, he became Editorial Board Member of the "Open Transplantation Journal".

He is currently a reviewer for the international journals: the "American Journal of Transplantation" (since 2004), "Transplant International" (since 2005), "Artificial Organs" (since 2005), "The Journal of Immunology" (since 2005), the "International Journal of Surgery" (since 2005), "Annals of Thoracic Surgery" (since 2005), the “Journal of Pathology” (since 2006), "Clinical and Experimental Immunology" (since 2006), the "Journal of Clinical Investigation" (since 2006) the "British Journal of Haematology" (since 2006), "Vox Sanguinis" (since 2008), "Cloning & Stem Cells" (since 2008), The Scandinavian Journal of Immunology (since 2008), and Cellular Immunology (since 2009).

Professional memberships include: The Transplantation Society, The International Xenotransplantation Association, American Society of Transplantation, The European Society of Organ Transplantation, The European Society for Surgical Research, The Dutch Society of Surgery and The Dutch Society of Transplantation.

He defended his PhD thesis entitled "Investigations relating to the induction of immunological tolerance through spleen transplantation in miniature swine" cum laude on October 11th 2006 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (promotors: Prof. Dr J.N.M. IJzermans & Prof. Dr D.K.C. Cooper).