Matthijs Raaben
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Cancer
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Netherlands
Biography
Born and raised in the Netherlands, He obtained his Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences from Utrecht University in 2004. He did his PhD, focused on coronavirus-host interactions, at the same University in the Virology group of Peter Rottier. After graduating in September 2009, he started working in the lab of Sean Whelan at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA), where he performed research on the cell entry mechanisms exploited by different negative-strand RNA viruses. In August 2013 he joined the Brummelkamp lab where he was currently using haploid genetic screening technology to uncover new virus entry strategies.
Research Interest
Cell entry mechanisms exploited by different negative-strand RNA viruses.
