Peter Riegman is a molecular biologist. Studied Biology 1982-1986 at Leiden University. PhD study on Prostate-Specific Antigen 1986-1992 at Erasmus University Rotterdam; Promotor: Prof. Dr. D. Bootsma, Co-promotor: Prof. Dr. J. Trapman; 1992-1997 Postdoc meningioma and neurofibromatosis; Dr. E. Zwarthoff;: 1997-2001 Postdoc, neoplastic progression in Barrett’s Esophagus; Dr. H van Dekken. From 2001 – present: Head of the Erasmus MC Tissue Bank, at the Pathology Dept, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, where he became involved in European projects: TuBaFrost as coordinator, EurocanPlatform, BIOPOOL, SPIDIA, BBMRI, EuroBoNeT and SPIDIA4P and from the start of 2020 in Instand-NGS4P. In 2010 he was ISBER president and ESBB president in 2011 and Section editor of Biopreservation and Biobanking. From 2012 – 2021 Erasmus MC Parelsnoer UMC and biobank coordinator. From 2012 NEN commissioner for CEN/TC140WG3 and ISO/TC212WG4. In 2018 he became advisor as well as board member in the Erasmus MC service platform of the Erasmus MC Central Biobank, when the Tissue bank became the Tissue collection point of the Central Biobank.
