Anna-Pavlina Haramis, PhD is senior research Grant Advisor at ‎University Medical Center in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

A Developmental Biologist, during her academic career as a group leader and assistant professor at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) and at Leiden University, she used zebrafish, a small transparent fish, as an experimental model to study the role of genes involved in processes that regulate organism development and in cancer. In 2018, with the desire to stay close to science and to contribute to the advancement of cutting edge biomedical research, she took a new direction in her professional career. She became Research Funding Advisor at the University of Amsterdam and subsequently she moved to Leiden University Medical Center and to UMC Utrecht.

She published in the highest-ranking scientific journals, including Nature and Science. She is recipient of prestigious personal fellowships and research grants, such as the Vidi Research Grant from NWO, the Dutch Science Research Council – Life Sciences.