Dr. John van den Anker is a Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Genomics and Precision Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC and holds the Evan and Cindy Jones Endowed Chair in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology. He also is the Eckenstein-Geigy Distinguished Professor of Pediatric Pharmacology at the University Children’s Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Dr. van den Anker has been the President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (2016-2018) and twice the President of the European Society of Developmental, Perinatal and Paediatric Pharmacology (2006-2008 and 2017-2019). His awards include the Distinguished Investigator Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (2008), the Distinguished Researcher award of the George Washington University (2012), and the Sumner J. Yaffe Lifetime Achievement Award in Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2019) from the Pediatric Pharmacy Association.
Over the past 30 years, Dr. van den Anker’ research has focused on developmental, neonatal and pediatric pharmacology. He has authored over 550 peer reviewed publications and has received NIH funding as well as funding from the European Union to support his research and the development of training programs in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology.
