Jannie Borst#
| Membership Number: | 4933 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jannie_Borst |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - Head Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical School
- 2019 - Full professor in Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Leiden University NL
- 1999 - 2019 Full professor in Experimental Oncology, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam NL
- 2002 - 2019 Head Division of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam NL
- 1999 - 2019 Senior research group leader, Division of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam NL
- 1992 - 1999 Research group leader (tenured), Division of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam NL
- 1987 - 1992 Junior research group leader, Division of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam NL
- 1983 - 1987 Research fellow, Division of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam NL
- 1980 - 1983 PhD student, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Fields of Scholarship
- Signal transduction
- T cell costimulation and coinhibition
- Cell death
- Immunology, specifically the T cell response
- Immune oncology
- Molecular basis of the T cell response
- Cell biology
- Cell death/stress and immunity
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Member of the Oncode Institute (https://www.oncode.nl
)
- 2012 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 2009 Van Loghem career award from the Dutch Society for Immunology
