Jan Egbert de Vries

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Jan Egbert de Vries (born May 4, 1944 in Strijen ) is a Dutch physician and immunologist. He is the holder of the Wilhelm Exner Medal .

Life

Jan de Vries studied at the University of Utrecht and graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a doctorate in medicine in the field of immunology in 1976 . After two years in John Mendelsohn's laboratory at the University of California , he was appointed head of the Immunology Department of the National Cancer Research Institute in Amsterdam in 1979 .

Act

He discovered that T lymphocytes from melanoma patients could destroy their own tumor cells in cell culture. These observations formed the basis for clinical vaccination trials for the treatment of certain types of cancer. In 1988 de Vries moved to the biotechnology company DNAX of Nobel Prize winners Paul Berg and Arthur Kornberg in Palo Alto . In a number of publications he showed that IL-4 and IL-13 are the main triggers for allergic diseases. In 1997 de Vries joined Novartis .

Awards

In 2005 de Vries was awarded the Wilhelm Exner Medal .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Egbert de Vries hoogleraren.leidenuniv.nl. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c [1] , Jan Egbert de Vries biography, accessed on June 15, 2019
  3. ↑ [2] , Jan Egbert de Vries, accessed June 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Vries, Jan Egbert de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physician and immunologist and holder of the Wilhelm Exner Medal
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Strijen