Postal address:
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, 's Gravendijkwal
230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Harry Janssen (1964) graduated from medical school at the Radboud University
of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. During his study he spent one year as research
fellow in Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic. He obtained his PhD in Rotterdam on
the role of immune modulating therapy in chronic hepatitis B. He then trained
in Internal Medicine at Leiden University Medical Center and in Gastroenterology
& Hepatology at Rotterdam Erasmus University Medical Center. Following his
registration as Gastroenterologist he returned to the Mayo Clinic for a research
fellowship in Hepatology at the Center of Basic Research in Digestive Diseases.
In 2001 he became a staff member and in 2006 he was appointed as full professor
of Hepatology and chief of the Section Liver Diseases and Transplantation in
Rotterdam.
As principle investigator prof. Janssen coordinated numerous European and global
multicenter studies on antiviral treatment for chronic viral hepatitis. He was
awarded a Clinical Fellowship and an Innovational Research grant (VIDI) from
the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) to study strategies
of immune control in viral hepatitis and published many international articles
on this subject. Professor Janssen is chairman of the Dutch Association of Hepatology
and was elected as Rising Star in Gastroenterology and Hepatology by the Association
of the National European Societies of Gastroenterology. He has been member of
the editorial board of Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology and Best Practice in
Gastroenterology. He has published over 200 original peer-reviewed papers. In
addition to his longstanding expertise in antiviral therapy of chronic viral
hepatitis, professor Janssen is a leading scientist in the field of vascular
disorders of the liver.
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