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History Eduard Huibertus Hermans The Medical faculty of the Erasmus university Rotterdam (EUR) started in 1966. In the early years, the department of dermatology of this faculty, with the Rotterdam dermatologist Eduard Huibertus Hermans (1894-1981) as its first professor, resembled the dermatology departments in hospitals in other main cities in the Netherlands without a university: in those days most dermatologist generally worked solitary within the institute; radiation therapy was an important treatment option for malignant and other skin manifestations. The first dermatology department of the Rotterdam university was located in the office building of the Municipal Public Health Services. Seafarers from all over the world frequented this facility. Venereal diseases and so called import-dermatoses including leprosy were regularly diagnosed here. Research was directed at venereal diseases and several innovations in both diagnosis and therapy were introduced. Hermans was indeed interested in both venereology and tropical diseases. His PhD thesis in 1928 was on framboesia tropica, a non- venereal treponemal disease, prevalent in Indonesia and Suriname, in those days colonies of the Netherlands. Cornelis Henri Beek In 1967 he was succeeded by Cornelis Henri Beek (1907-1998) who was appreciated because of his inspiring clinical teaching of medical students and residents. In 1973 the dermatology department moved to the University Hospital Dijkzigt. The scientific interest and research program traditionally directed at venereal diseases was continued, but it now also shifted somewhat towards general dermatology. Close participation with Rotterdam geneticists led to the increase of research in the field of xeroderma pigmentosum, a congenital condition which is quite rare in the Netherlands. The mechanism of DNA- repair was unravelled.[1] To date, university based Rotterdam geneticists are still pioneers in the field of DNA-repair. Furthermore Beek worked closely together with the department of Medical Microbiology and so Ernst Stolz became one of the first PhD-students of the Medical faculty of the EUR, with a thesis on the diagnostic aspects on gonorrhoea. 128 BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:40 Pagina 128