Dr. Sjoerd

Biography

Prof. van der Burg is a professor in experimental cancer immunology and therapy at the department of clinical oncology of the Leiden University Medical Center, he received his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His research interest is in tumour immunopathology with an emphasis on the local immune response, T-helper cells, regulatory T cells and cytotoxic T cells in tumour immunity, as well as in immunotherapy of cancer, in particular the development of therapeutic vaccine strategies and the adoptive transfer of ex-vivo expanded T cells. He has extensive experience with the monitoring of human T cell responses and exploits this to guide the development of therapeutic vaccines against cancer.

Research Interest

tumour immunopathology