Dr. Jan von der Thüsen

Biography

Jan von der Thüsen is a histopathologist with subspecialist interest in thoracic and cardiovascular
pathology. He received his medical training at the Universities of Cambridge (UK, Trinity College) and
London (UK, Imperial College), and his specialist training at Leiden University Medical Centre (The
Netherlands). He developed his subspecialist interest in pulmonary and mediastinal pathology
during appointments as consultant histopathologist and university lecturer at the Academic Medical
Centre in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
(London, UK).

He currently works as lead thoracic pathologist, associate professor, deputy head of department,
and molecular diagnostics liaison at the department of Pathology and Clinical Bioinformatics of the
Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). His research interests include the
pathology of neoplastic and non-neoplastic thoracic diseases, including mediastinal tumours and
mesothelioma, with a focus on personalising treatments through integrated and computational
pathology. He has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and is pathology sub-editor of Lung
Cancer.

He is the current pathology chair of the EORTC lung cancer group, lung subgroup chair of the EORTC
Pathobiology Group, medical expert for the ESP lung EQA scheme, chair of the ESP thymic and
mediastinal working group (TMWG), pathology committee member of the IASLC, and computational
pathology lead for the European Thoracic Oncology Platform (ETOP), the International Thymic
Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG), and IASLC. He is chairman of the Dutch Thoracic Pathology
Working group (NWTP), president of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology
(BDIAP), co-organiser of the Dutch international thymoma panel, member of the Dutch
mesothelioma panel, and board member of the Dutch Lung Cancer Audit (DLCA).