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Pieter is leading Discovery Sciences at Galapagos. His team is enabling small molecule and cell therapy discovery efforts across oncology, immunology and infectious diseases. The team is deploying both wet lab and computational capabilities covering cellular, biochemical and biophysical assay development, high throughput screening, compound profiling, computational biology and drug design. Before joining Galapagos, Pieter spend 24 years at J&J where he was leading efforts in the search for novel, safe and effective drugs by combining computational and wet lab approaches. Pieter obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Biological Sciences at the Center for Human Genetics, University Leuven, Belgium and graduated as a bioengineering at the same university.