Anastassis Perrakis

Anastassis Perrakis is the Head of Division of Biochemistry at The Netherlands Cancer Institute, where Anastassis leads a research group focused on understanding the basic biology of cancer. Anastassis is also a Senior Member Research Staff and Group Leader at the same institute. Additionally, Anastassis holds the title of Investigator at Oncode Institute, conducting research in Integrative Structural Biology. Perrakis is a Professor at Utrecht University, balancing their time between teaching, research, and their position at NKI. With a background in Chemistry and Biology, Anastassis has previously worked as a Staff Scientist at EMBL and has conducted post-doctoral and PhD research on DNA mismatch repair, protein structures, and chitinolytic enzymes.