Roeland "Roel" Nusse (born 9 June 1950, Amsterdam) is a professor at Stanford University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
[1] His research was seminal in the discovery of Wnt signaling, a family of pleiotropic regulators involved in development and disease.
[2] Nusse received his BSc in biology and his PhD from the University of Amsterdam.
Nusse did a postdoctoral fellowship under the guidance of Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco.
His lab is currently focused on the role of Wnt in stem cell development and tissue repair.