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Jan Schuurkes
Jan A. J. Schuurkes (born 1950, in Oisterwijk) is a Dutch biologist and gastrointestinal researcher. Education He graduated as a biochemist at the Catholic University of Nijmegen ( Nijmegen). He obtained a PhD in Medicine at Utrecht University (Utrecht) with a thesis on ''Motility and hemodynamics of the canine gastrointestinal tract''. Career In 1979, he started his career at Janssen Pharmaceutica, where he became assistant head of the Department of Pharmacodynamics, head of the Department of Gastrointestinal pharmacology and finally vice-president Gastrointestinal Discovery. In 2007, he founded a new pharmaceutical company, Movetis, together with Remi Van den Broeck, Staf Van Reet and Dirk Reyn. Awards * 1997, Dr. Paul Janssen Paul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen (12 September 1926 - 11 November 2003) was a Belgian physician. He was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employees which is now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Ea ... aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oisterwijk
Oisterwijk () is a municipality and a city in the south of the Netherlands. Population centres * Haaren * Heukelom *Moergestel *Oisterwijk Topography ''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Oisterwijk, 2021'' Transportation * Railway station: Oisterwijk City Oisterwijk received city rights in 1230. Part of the municipality of Oisterwijk includes the 'Oisterwijkse bossen en vennen' (Oisterwijk forests and fens) and the 'Kampina', two nature reserves. The reserves are owned and kept by the 'Vereniging Natuurmonumenten' (Nature Monuments Society). Notable people * Nicolaus van Esch (1507 in Oisterwijk – 1578) a Dutch Roman Catholic theologian and mystical writer retrieved 08 November 2019 * |
