16 Facts About Jaap Goudsmit

Jaap Goudsmit was born on 22 July 1951 in Amsterdam and is Dutch scientist, known for his research in the field of AIDS and influenza.

Jaap Goudsmit shifted his research interest to aging and neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's Disease.

Jaap Goudsmit was among the first in 1986 who discovered that the amount of HIV in blood predicted the progression to clinically manifest AIDS and he discovered in 2008 the achillesheel of the influenza virus that opened the way towards a universal influenza vaccine.

In 2013 Jaap Goudsmit coined the concept "Immorbidity" for a human life course immune to age-related diseases that prematurely end life, accepting that even with a minimum of disease human life ends.

In 1978 Jaap Goudsmit received his MD degree with honor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam.

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Jaap Goudsmit was awarded a Fogarty fellowship, and joined the research on kuru with Nobel Prize winner Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.

Jaap Goudsmit received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1982.

In 1983 Jaap Goudsmit became board certified in the Netherlands as a Medical Microbiologist.

Jaap Goudsmit was appointed professor of virology in 1989 at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, a position he held till 2001.

Jaap Goudsmit has been head of the Department of Human Retrovirology at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam from 1996 to 2002 and chairman of the AMC Research Institute for Infectious Diseases and the AMC Institute for Science Education.

In 2016 Goudsmit was appointed professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health.

Jaap Goudsmit chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and has been a member of its board.

Jaap Goudsmit was project leader and chair of Eurovacc Foundation.

In 2002 Jaap Goudsmit joined Crucell, a biotechnology company in Leiden, as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Vaccine Research and Development.

Jaap Goudsmit is a very productive researcher and author or co-author of more than 560 scientific publications of which ten appeared in Science, six in Nature and twelve in the PNAS.

In 2016 Jaap Goudsmit received an honorary degree from the Vrije University and the Vrije University Medical Center for his lifetime achievements in science both in academia and the biopharmaceutical Industry.