Harry Janssen
Member
Clinical Advisory Boards
Benitec Ltd
Australia
Biography
Professor of Medicine, Francis Family Chair in Liver Research and Head of Liver Clinic at Toronto Western and Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, CanadaHarry Janssen is Professor of Medicine, Francis Family Chair in Hepatology and Head of the Liver Clinic at Toronto Western and Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.Harry Janssen (1964) graduated from medical school at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. During his study he spent one year as research fellow in Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic. He obtained his PhD in Rotterdam on the role of immune modulating therapy in chronic hepatitis B. He then trained in Internal Medicine at Leiden University Medical Center and in Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Rotterdam Erasmus University Medical Center. Following his registration as Gastroenterologist he returned to the Mayo Clinic for a research fellowship in Hepatology at the Center of Basic Research in Digestive Diseases. In 2001 he became a staff member and in 2006 he was appointed as full professor of Hepatology and Chief of the Section Liver Diseases and Transplantation in Rotterdam.
Research Interest
Immunology
