Rene E. M. Toes#
| Membership Number: | 5817 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.universiteitleiden.nl/medewerkers/reinaldus-toes#tab-1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9618-6414 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professor of Experimental Rheumatology, Leiden University/LUMC, The Netherlands
- 2001 - present Head of the Laboratory of Dept. of Rheumatology, LUMC, The Netherlands
- 2005 - 2009 Associate Professor in Immunology and Immunogenetics of Rheumatoid Arthritis; Department of Rheumatology, LUMC, The Netherlands
- 2001 - 2004 Assistant Professor in Immunology of Rheumatoid Arthritis; Department of Rheumatology, LUMC, The Netherlands
- 1998 - 2000 Fellow of the royal academy of arts and sciences and Visiting Scientist, Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Post translational modificications
- Breach of immune tolerance
- T-cells
- B-cells
- Experimental Rheumatology
- Autoimmunity
- Autoantibodies
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Vaccine(s)
- Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA)
- Tumor immunology
Honours and Awards
- 2020 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2018 Carol Nachman Prize for Rheumatology. This is the most prestigious international award in rheumatology awarded annually to mark outstanding innovative contributions in the area of rheumatology
- 2018 - 2023 Research Center of Excellence, Dutch Arthritis Society (ReumaNederland)
- 2014 Graduate programme ‘Immunity, Infection and Tolerance’, Dutch Research Council (NWO)
- 2008 VICI grant (largest and most prestigious national grant for senior researchers), NWO
- 2003 VIDI grant (most prestigious national grant for mid-career researchers), NWO
- 1998 Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 1997 CJ Kok Prize for Innovative basic research, LUM
