Joost W. Vanhommerig
Research Officer
Life Sciences
Burnet Institute
Australia
Biography
Joost started his PhD research in 2011 at the department of Infectious Diseases Research and Prevention at the Public Health Service of Amsterdam, and continued in 2013 at the department of Medical Microbiology at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.
Research Interest
His research mainly focused on acute hepatitis C virus infection, and combined the fields of virology and epidemiology. During the last year of his PhD he also worked as a data manager for the HELIUS health study, a large study investigating cardiovascular and infectious diseases, and mental health among different ethnicities living in Amsterdam. Joost then continued his career at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, where he worked on neglected tropical diseases with modellers and geospatial analysts. He joins the Burnet Institute for 6 months and will work on a hepatitis C modelling project.
Publications
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Development and validation of the HCV-MOSAIC risk score to assist testing for acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM). Astrid M Newsum, Ineke G Stolte, Jan Tm van der Meer, Janke Schinkel, Marc van der Valk, Joost W Vanhommerig, Anne Buve, Mark Danta, Arjan Hogewoning, Maria Prins Euro Surveill. 2017 May; 22(21)
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Limited overlap between phylogenetic HIV and hepatitis C virus clusters illustrates the dynamic sexual network structure of Dutch HIV-infected MSM. Joost W Vanhommerig, Daniela Bezemer, Richard Molenkamp, Ard I Van Sighem, Colette Smit, Joop E Arends, Fanny N Lauw, Kees Brinkman, Bart J Rijnders, Astrid M Newsum, Sylvia M Bruisten, Maria Prins, Jan T Van Der Meer, Thijs J Van De Laar, Janke Schinkel AIDS. 2017 Sep; 31(15):2147-2158
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DC-SIGN Polymorphisms Associated with Risk of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Men who Have Sex with Men but not Among Injecting Drug Users. Gaby S Steba, Sylvie M Koekkoek, Joost W Vanhommerig, Kees Brinkman, David Kwa, Jan T M Van Der Meer, Maria Prins, Ben Berkhout, Michael Tanck, William A Paxton, Richard Molenkamp, Janke Schinkel J Infect Dis. 2017 Nov; Epub ahead of print
