Genetics of the Immune System

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Ikerbasque Research Professor, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU; since 2007)

EDUCATION AND CAREER:
Following undergraduate (Molecular Biology) and PhD degrees (1989-1993) at the University of Leuven, Koen Vandenbroeck performed postdoctoral training at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan (1994-1996) and the Rega Institute for Medical Research in Leuven (1996-1999). He was appointed to a lectureship at the School of Pharmacy of Queen's University Belfast where he promoted to the Chair of Applied Genomics in 2004.

MEMBERSHIPS:
• International Society of Neuroimmunology
• International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research
• Red Española de Esclerosis Múltiple (REEM)

AWARDS/HONORS/EDITORSHIP/RESEARCH CO-ORDINATION:
• The 1999 Teva and Marion Hoechst Roussel Young Investigator Award for Multiple Sclerosis Research
• The 2002 ISICR Milstein Young Investigator Award
• Editor of ‘Cytokine Gene Polymorphisms in Multifactorial Conditions’, ISBN: 0849336198, Taylor and Francis CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. Published: 2006
• Coordinator of FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network: 'United Europeans for development of PHArmacogenomics in Multiple Sclerosis' (UEPHA*MS 2008- 2012; http://www.reem.es/uepha-ms/)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Genetics of multiple sclerosis (MS); cytokine gene polymorphisms; pharmacogenomics of MS immunomodulatory treatments; cytokine-targeting drug development.