Ruud Brands

Biography

Ruud Brands is a molecular cell biologist, specializing in Cellular Biochemistry and Biological Immunotoxicology. After his graduation at the University of Utrecht, he held several positions in the field of cell biology and oncology at Stanford University and the Netherlands Cancer Institute. In the nineties he was a staff member at the Department of Biotechnology at Solvay Pharmaceuticals in the Netherlands, where he managed the R&D of the first (licensed) cell culture derived influenza vaccine. Brands was co-founder of PharmAAware bv in 2000, incorporated in the AM-Pharma holding bv in 2002 after a merger. In 2005 he founded Alloksys Life Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company that develops RESCAP therapeutic proteins. In 2013  a sister company AMRIF was founded to further the RESCAP platform for chronic disease management. Brands has authored more than 30 papers and is inventor of various patents.

Research Interest

 Biological Immunotoxicology