Pancras C.W. Hogendoorn received his MD and Ph.D. in Medicine from Leiden University, The Netherlands. His doctoral thesis in 1990 focused on the immunopathogenetic mechanisms of experimental glomerulonephritis. Following this, he specialized further in oncologic pathology. Currently, he works as a Professor of Pathology at Leiden University Medical Center and is a visiting professor at Oxford, Bruxelles, and Airlangga University. His research primarily focuses on Bone Tumours, Soft Tissue Tumours, Pathology, and Molecular Pathology. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. He is also an honorary member of the Belgian Society of Pathology. He has received many awards, including the European Oswald Vander Vekenprijs in 2008, the Corrine Farrel Award of the International Skeletal Society twice (in 1994 and 1998), and the Jeremy Jass Prize for excellent research in the field of pathology in 2011 and 2015. Additionally, he holds a doctorate honoris causa from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary.