Cornelis J.F. Van Noorden National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ron Van Noorden was born in 1951 and grew up in the south-western part of The Netherlands close to the North Sea shores and the Belgian border. He went to Amsterdam to become a medical biology student at the University of Amsterdam in 1971. His student years ended in 1978 (cum laude).
He became PhD student (PhD in 1983), lecturer (1983-1986), associate professor (1986-1997), full professor in cell biology and histology (1997-present) and chairman (1993-present) of the Department of Cell Biology & Histology of the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam.
He was selected by the students as lecturer of the year twice in the curriculum Medical Informatics (in 1998 and 1999) and twice in the curriculum Medicine (in 2003 and 2004) at the AMC.
His research was always focused on activity of proteins and particularly enzymes in their natural microenvionment, the cell or the extracellular matrix, in pathophysiological conditions such as arthritis, invasion and metastasis of cancer and now brain tumors (glioblastoma) and blindness due to diabetes (diabetic retinopathy).
He published almost 300 peer reviewed papers and has been promotor of 27 PhD students so far.
He won the Robert Feulgen Prize of the Society for Histochemistry in 1987 together with Roger Butcher for their contribution to quantitative analysis of enzyme activity in situ, he presented the first Piet Van Duijn Lecture of the Dutch Foundation Histochemistry in Kyoto, Japan, 1996 on live cell imaging and in 2008 he won the David Glick Award of the International Federation of Societies for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry.
