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Professor Medical Microbiolopgy
Leiden University Medical Center and RIVM, Netherlands
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Prof. Dr. E.J. Kuijper is medical doctor and completed his education in Medical Microbiology in Amsterdam University in 1987. He is appointed both at Leiden University Medical Centre and National Institute of Public Health (LUMC and RIVM). Currently, his research group encompasses 20 individuals amongst 6 PhD students and 5 PIs, active in the Experimental Microbiology and the Centre for Micribiota Analysis and Therapeutics. Since 2018, dr. Kuijper is chairman of the ESCMID study group on Host and Microbiota interactions (ESGHAMI). His research activities in COVID-19 are mainly on the area of the role of the microbiota in the defencce against SARS-CoV-2 .