title: Jan Schuurkes
text: # Jan Schuurkes
  
  Jan A. J. Schuurkes (born 1950, in Oisterwijk) is a Dutch biologist and gastrointestinal researcher.
  
  ## Education
  
  He graduated as a biochemist at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (Nijmegen). He obtained a PhD in Medicine at Utrecht University (Utrecht) with a thesis on Motility and hemodynamics of the canine gastrointestinal tract.
  
  ## Career
  
  In 1979, he started his career at Janssen Pharmaceutica, where he became assistant head of the Department of Pharmacodynamics, head of the Department of Gastrointestinal pharmacology and finally vice-president Gastrointestinal Discovery. In 2007, he founded a new pharmaceutical company, Movetis, together with Remi Van den Broeck, Staf Van Reet and Dirk Reyn.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 1997, Dr. Paul Janssen award.
  