Titia de Lange, PhD, is the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research and a Leon Hess Professor at the Rockefeller University in New York City, where she directs the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics.

She is a Dutch scientist who has been fascinated by telomeres – the protective elements at the ends of chromosomes – since the beginning of her career, when she was one of the first researchers in the laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus to isolate the telomeres from human chromosomes. Research in her laboratory focuses on understanding how telomeres protect chromosome ends from the DNA damage response and the role of telomeres in cancer.

She is an elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, the European Molecular Biology Organization, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in the UK.