Renske Steenbergen

Renske Steenbergen is a Professor of Experimental Pathology at the Department of Pathology Amsterdam UMC, Cancer Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has a MSc degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Leiden and gained her PhD degree cum laude from VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1997.

In 1999, she was awarded a fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She has a 30-year track record in basic and translational research focused on HPV-induced carcinogenesis (www.hpvstudies.nl).

Through the comprehensive molecular analysis of in vitro models and cross-sectional and prospectively collected clinical specimens, she developed and validated DNA methylation and microRNA biomarkers for cervical and anal cancer screening and risk stratification of HPV-induced precancerous disease. More recently, her research has expanded to explore early cancer detection in at-home collected samples, like urine.