Emile Voest is currently director of Cancer Core Europe, a collaboration of seven top comprehensive cancer centers in Europe and was Executive Medical Director of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) until 2021.
He has been Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Utrecht (UMC) since 1999 and leads his research group at the NKI and Oncode Institute. He has founded and leads several innovative precision medicine initiatives in oncology. He is co-founder and non-executive board member of the Hartwig Medical Foundation (large scale DNA analyses), is a board member of the Center for Personalized Cancer Treatment and leads several innovative precision oncology clinical trials. Over recent years, he also played several leadership roles in medical societies such as ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) and ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology).