Taco Kuijpers#
| Membership Number: | 5601 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.amsterdamumc.org/research/researchers/taco-kuijpers.htm |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7421-3370 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Member national committee SARS-CoV-2 enriched IVIG use in high-risk patients
- 2020 - present Co-PI on two large research grants on COVID19/vaccination in immunosuppressed patients
- 2018 - present Staff member Dept Paediatric Immunology/Rheumatology/Infectious disease, Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC)
- 2018 - present PI National Research Consortium Target-to-B! (T2B)
- 2002 - 2018 Head of Dept Paediatric Hematology, Immunology & Infectious disease, Academic Medical Center
- 2011 - present Chair of the national Working party on Immunodeficiencies
- 2004 - 2014 Committee member of Advisory Board to Health Council and Ministry of Health on vaccination and infectious disease
- 1998 - present Paediatrician/staff member Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam
- 1993 - present Professor of Paediatric Immunology, University of Amsterdam
- 1992 - 1993 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington, Seattle
- 1992 PhD degree (University of Amsterdam, cum laude)
- 1989 MD degree (University of Amsterdam, cum laude)
Fields of Scholarship
- B cell development and function
- Multi-inflammatory syndrome in children (MISC, SARS-CoV-2-associated)
- IgG and IgG receptors
- Innate immunity
- Kawasaki disease, a paediatric vasculitis of the heart
- Clinical immunology
- Humoral immunity
- Neutrophil development and function
- Autoimmune diseases and treatment (immunosuppression)
Honours and Awards
- 2012 - present Honorary Research Fellow Cambridge University, UK
- 2013 N4i Weemaes-Van der Meer Award for Immunodeficiencies
- 2004 NWO-VIDI Fellowship for 5 years on ‘Neutrophil apoptosis and mitochondrial function’
- 1997 Fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for 3 years
- 1994 First Prize for the Young Investigator, Dutch Society of Paediatrics (NVK)
- 1993 Andreas Bonn-prize, Society for the Promotion of Biomedical Sciences
