Curriculum Vitae
Address: Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. Phone: +31-651722786, e.kloet@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl, erdekloet@gmail.com. erdekloet@live.com
Qualifications
MSc Utrecht (The Netherlands) 1968 Chemistry
Ph.D. Utrecht 1972 Neuroendocrinology
Employment record
2004- Academy professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
1990-2009 Professor & Head Department of Medical Pharmacology, Leiden University
1975-1990 Rudolf Magnus Institute, University of Utrecht, Associate Professor.
1973-1975 Rockefeller University, New York, USA, Postdoctoral Fellow.
1969-1973 Organon International BV, Oss, The Netherlands, Research Fellow.
Organisation International Neuroscience Schools
2009 Organizer FENS Summerschool ‘Neurodevelopmental programming and phenotypic plasticity’,
Rhodes, September 6-13, 2009.
2002 Organizer High Level Scientific Conference: 10th Elba Neuroscience School on Neurobiology of
‘Stress in Health and Disease’, may.
1996 Organiser 5th Elba Neuroscience School on "Neurobiology of Stress", September
1987 Organizer (with W Rostene) European Science Foundation ‘ Autumn Schools in the
Neurosciences, Santa Margaritha
1986 Organiser (with W Rostene) European Science Foundation "Autumn Schools in the
Neurosciences".Spetsai , Greece
Organisation of major international conferences/symposia/workshops
2013 Organizing committee 43rd ISPNE Congress Leiden
2010 Co –chair Biannual Meeting of the International Society of the Investigation of Stress
2010 Local Organisation Committee FENS-Amsterdam
2009 Organising Committee European Federation Endocrine Societies, Istanbul
2006 Chair, Academy Colloquium on ‘Stress hormones and PTSD: basic and clinical studies.
2006 Chair XXXVIIth International Conference Psychoneuroendocrinology, Leiden
2000 Chairman Organising Committee: "Nuclear Receptors in the Brain: Potential target for
therapeutic agents"; Leiden, The Netherlands.
1998- 2010 Organiser of the Annual Marius Tausk Visiting Professor Lectures and Workshops.
1996 Organiser 40th Oholo Conference, Zichron Jacov, Israel (Book edited).
1994 Chairman New York Academy of Sciences Conference "Brain Corticosteroid Receptors; studies
on the mechanism, function and neurotoxicity of corticosteroid action". (Book)
1994 Chairman Progr Committee 3rd Congress Neuroendocrinology, 3-8 July, 1994; Budapest
1990 Organising Committee, VIIIth International Congress on Hormonal Steroids, Amsterdam.
1986 Chairman Organising Committee "Neuropeptides and Brain Function", Utrecht.
Science Management activities
2016 Scientific Advisory Board BIAL Foundation
2016 International Research Council, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk
2013 Expert panel University of Louvain peer review Biomedical Sciences
2010 Advisory Board DFG Excellence Initiative – Psychology and Neuroscience
2008 ECNP Award Committee
2008-2012 Advisory Board Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Epidemiology, Edinburgh, U K
2003-2014 Chairman Scientific Advisory Board Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich
2003-2013 Board “Internationale Stichting Alzheimeronderzoek”. (Chair since 2008)
2003-2007 Vice Chairman VICI selection committee Netherlands Science Foundation
1999-2003 Advisory Board "Institutes for Life Sciences", Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
1996-2005 Board Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam.
1994-2000 President "Netherlands Endocrine Society" (> 500 members).
1993-1998 Chairman Scientific Advisory Board "Netherlands Institute for Brain Research".
Editorial Boards
J Neuroendocrinology (receiving editor, 1989-1998): Stress (Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, 1996-2000); Neuroendocrinology (1989-1994); Hormones & Behavior (1995- 2001); Endocrinology 1998-2003, J Neuroscience Research (1993-1999). Current editorial boards: Psychoneuroendocrinology; J Psychiatr Res; Eur Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience; J Steroid Biochem & Molecular Biology; Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology,
Scientific Advisory Boards
Corcept Therapeutics 2001 to date - member of scientific advisory board, shareholder
Pharmaseed 2012 to date - member of scientific advisory committee
Dynacorts Therapeutics 2011 todate - Chief Scientific Officer, share holder
Patents and patent applications
P4379EP: MR genotyping distinguishes subgroup of patients. Use of genotyping of the MR which will help to identify people at risk for depression or anxiety disorders. Inventors RH de Rijk, MD Klok and ER de Kloet
INV-09LU247:Biomarkers for determining treatment type for depression, supplementary filing of European.Patent Application No 09252465.1.