Jaap Goudsmit
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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 achilles heel of the influenza virus that opened the way towards a universal influenza vaccine. In 2013 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 2000 the science-fiction writer Wil McCarthy introduced the term " immorbidity " in his book " The Collapsium" as the concept to eradicate all terminal illness during time transport over lightyears making the transported people virtually immortal. Goudsmit disagrees with this link between immortality and immorbidity.
In 1978 Goudsmit received his MD degree with honor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam. He was awarded a Fogarty fellowship and joined the research on kuru with Nobel Prize winner Daniel Carleton Gajdusek. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1982. He received a Fogarty Visiting Scientist Award to do postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1983 Goudsmit became board certified in the Netherlands as a Medical Microbiologist. From 1989 -2001 he was professor in virology at the University of Amsterdam. One Science paper published in 1990 with Goudsmit as senior author created a controversy in the Netherlands and concerned a study of blocking of HIV replication by antisense DNA. Despite the fact that Goudsmit had to retract this paper, he was chosen by his peers in a 1993 Science article as one of the best European AIDS scientists and is still one of the most productive and most cited virologists worldwide.
Goudsmit was appointed professor of virology in 1989 at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, a position he held till 2001. He has been heading the Department of Human Retrovirology at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) 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. From 1984 -2001 he was one of the principal researchers of the Amsterdam Cohort Studies on HIV infection and AIDS among homosexual men and HIV drug users. From 2001 to 2016 Goudsmit was professor of vaccinology and immunoprophylaxis in the department of Internal Medicine at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam and in 2016 he became professor of Pathogenesis and natural history of neurodegenerative diseases in the Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Academic Medical Center. In 2016 Goudsmit was appointed professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. In 2019 Goudsmit was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Human Vaccines Project (www.humanvaccinesproject.org)
He chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and has been a member of its board. He was project leader and (co)chair of Eurovacc Foundation. In 2002 Goudsmit joined Crucell, a biotechnology company in Leiden, as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Vaccine Research and Development. From 2004 -2011 he was Chief Scientific Officer of Crucell and member of the management board. When Crucell was acquired by Johnson and Johnson Goudsmit became head of the Crucell Vaccine Institute from 2011 to 2015, an institute focusing on influenza research. In 2015 he became global head of the Janssen Prevention Center, that focuses on the prevention of non-communicable diseases with a special emphasis on prognostic markers for age-related diseases. In 2017 Goudsmit retired from Johnson & Johnson and returned to academia to study Alzheimer's Disease and Ageing.
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. According to the Institute for Scientific Information, he entered the list of most-cited scientists in 2001. In 2016 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Freek Cox, Matthijs Baart, Jeroen Huizingh, Jeroen Tolboom, Liesbeth Dekking, Jaap Goudsmit, Eirikur Saeland, Katarina RadoševićGet full text
Published 2015-01-01
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3by Joan E. M. van der Lubbe, Jessica Vreugdenhil, Sarra Damman, Joost Vaneman, Jaco Klap, Jaap Goudsmit, Katarina Radošević, Ramon RoozendaalGet full text
Published 2017-06-01
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4by Freek Cox, Anna Roos, Nicole Hafkemeijer, Matthijs Baart, Jeroen Tolboom, Liesbeth Dekking, Koert Stittelaar, Jaap Goudsmit, Katarina Radošević, Eirikur SaelandGet full text
Published 2015-01-01
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5by Robert H E Friesen, Wouter Koudstaal, Martin H Koldijk, Gerrit Jan Weverling, Just P J Brakenhoff, Peter J Lenting, Koert J Stittelaar, Albert D M E Osterhaus, Ronald Kompier, Jaap GoudsmitGet full text
Published 2010-02-01
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6by Ramon Roozendaal, Jeroen Tolboom, Anna Roos, Sarra Riahi, Jessica Theeuwsen, Miriam V Bujny, Vincent Klaren, Hans J W M Korse, Liesbeth Dekking, Arijan Grootenhuis, Gerrit Jan Weverling, Wouter Koudstaal, Jaap Goudsmit, Katarina RadoševićGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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7by Roland Zahn, Gert Gillisen, Anna Roos, Marina Koning, Esmeralda van der Helm, Dirk Spek, Mo Weijtens, Maria Grazia Pau, Katarina Radošević, Gerrit Jan Weverling, Jerome Custers, Jort Vellinga, Hanneke Schuitemaker, Jaap Goudsmit, Ariane RodríguezGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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8by Boerries Brandenburg, Wouter Koudstaal, Jaap Goudsmit, Vincent Klaren, Chan Tang, Miriam V Bujny, Hans J W M Korse, Ted Kwaks, Jason J Otterstrom, Jarek Juraszek, Antoine M van Oijen, Ronald Vogels, Robert H E FriesenGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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9by Mark Throsby, Edward van den Brink, Mandy Jongeneelen, Leo L M Poon, Philippe Alard, Lisette Cornelissen, Arjen Bakker, Freek Cox, Els van Deventer, Yi Guan, Jindrich Cinatl, Jan ter Meulen, Ignace Lasters, Rita Carsetti, Malik Peiris, John de Kruif, Jaap GoudsmitGet full text
Published 2008-01-01
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10by Isabelle Magalhaes, Donata R Sizemore, Raija K Ahmed, Stefanie Mueller, Lena Wehlin, Charles Scanga, Frank Weichold, Giulia Schirru, Maria Grazia Pau, Jaap Goudsmit, Sharon Kühlmann-Berenzon, Mats Spångberg, Jan Andersson, Hans Gaines, Rigmor Thorstensson, Yasir A W Skeiky, Jerry Sadoff, Markus MaeurerGet full text
Published 2008-01-01
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11by Nancy J Sullivan, Thomas W Geisbert, Joan B Geisbert, Devon J Shedlock, Ling Xu, Laurie Lamoreaux, Jerome H H V Custers, Paul M Popernack, Zhi-Yong Yang, Maria G Pau, Mario Roederer, Richard A Koup, Jaap Goudsmit, Peter B Jahrling, Gary J NabelGet full text
Published 2006-06-01
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12by Jan ter Meulen, Edward N van den Brink, Leo L M Poon, Wilfred E Marissen, Cynthia S W Leung, Freek Cox, Chung Y Cheung, Arjen Q Bakker, Johannes A Bogaards, Els van Deventer, Wolfgang Preiser, Hans Wilhelm Doerr, Vincent T Chow, John de Kruif, Joseph S M Peiris, Jaap GoudsmitGet full text
Published 2006-07-01
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13by Caroline Atyeo, Matthew D. Slein, Stephanie Fischinger, John Burke, Alexandra Schäfer, Sarah R. Leist, Natalia A. Kuzmina, Chad Mire, Anna Honko, Rebecca Johnson, Nadia Storm, Matthew Bernett, Pei Tong, Teng Zuo, Junrui Lin, Adam Zuiani, Caitlyn Linde, Todd Suscovich, Duane R. Wesemann, Anthony Griffiths, John R. Desjarlais, Boris D. Juelg, Jaap Goudsmit, Alexander Bukreyev, Ralph Baric, Galit AlterGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
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14by Adrian Apetri, Rosa Crespo, Jarek Juraszek, Gabriel Pascual, Roosmarijn Janson, Xueyong Zhu, Heng Zhang, Elissa Keogh, Trevin Holland, Jay Wadia, Hanneke Verveen, Berdien Siregar, Michael Mrosek, Renske Taggenbrock, Jeroenvan Ameijde, Hanna Inganäs, Margot van Winsen, Martin H. Koldijk, David Zuijdgeest, Marianne Borgers, Koen Dockx, Esther J. M. Stoop, Wenli Yu, Els C. Brinkman-van der Linden, Kimberley Ummenthum, Kristof van Kolen, Marc Mercken, Stefan Steinbacher, Donata de Marco, Jeroen J. Hoozemans, Ian A. Wilson, Wouter Koudstaal, Jaap GoudsmitGet full text
Published 2018-05-01
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