Mihai Netea
Mihai Netea (* 1968 in Cluj-Napoca ) is a Dutch-Romanian medical doctor and professor at Radboud University Nijmegen who specializes in infectious diseases, immunology and global health.
Netea studied medicine in Cluj-Napoca and received her doctorate from Radboud University with a dissertation on the cytokine network in sepsis . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Colorado and then completed his specialist training in infectious diseases in Nijmegen. There he is professor and head of the Department of Experimental Medicine in Internal Medicine at the Medical University in Nijmegen.
He examines the innate immune system (immune defects and traces of infections in its memory) and the pattern recognition of fungal pathogens. In particular, he examined how the immune system recognizes and eliminates the fungus Candida albicans , a common cause of sepsis.
In 2016 he received the Spinoza Prize . He is a member of the Academia Europaea (2015) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (2016).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Netea, Mihai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Netea, Mihai Gheorghe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch-Romanian medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluj-Napoca |