Dept. of Pathology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Pieter Wesseling, MD, PhD, was trained as clinical (neuro)pathologist in the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (supervised by Prof. Joop L. Slooff), and in Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA (Prof. Peter C. Burger). He is at present affiliated with the Dept. of Pathology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers (where he is full professor in neuro-oncological pathology) and with the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, the national pediatric oncology center in Utrecht, Netherlands. He has led multiple (inter)national research projects, (co-)authored > 300 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals on neuro-oncological topics, is member of the editorial board of several international neuro-oncological and neuropathological journals. He is at present chair of the consortium to Improve Molecular and Practical Approaches for CNS tumor Taxonomy (cIMPACT-NOW) Steering Committee, was centrally involved in shaping the revised 4th edition of the WHO CNS tumor classification (2016) and is an expert editor of the 5th (2021) edition of this classification as well as of the WHO classification of Pediatric Tumors (2022).
