Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Duve
Brussels, Belgium
Pierre G. Coulie, MD PhD, born in Brussels in 1957, is Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université catholique de Louvain, located in Brussels, where he teaches immunology. Trained as an immunologist at the de Duve Institute in Brussels, he worked with Prof. Jacques Van Snick on rheumatoid factors and cytokines. In 1988 he joined the group of Prof. Thierry Boon to work on human tumor immunology. Investigator at the Brussels branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research from 1989 to 1995, he made important contributions to the identification of human tumor-specific antigens recognized by T lymphocytes and to the understanding of the mechanisms of tumor regressions in the early days of cancer immunotherapy. Heading a research group at the de Duve Institute, P. Coulie is an expert on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of human tumors. His current research deals with the immunogenicity of breast and bladder carcinomas, including at the early stages of tumor development, with inflammatory cytokine production in the context of cancer and with the identification of antigens targeted by T cells in human autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Friday, July 1, 2022
17:00 – 17:20