Marien de Jonge obtained a PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2003. He worked as post-doctoral fellow at Institut Pasteur in Paris until 2006, after which he got a position as R&D project leader at Merck Sharpe & Dohme. Since 2011 he is working at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen (RUMC), first as senior scientist and from 2012 as assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Since 2018 he is associate professor and in 2021 became head of the Laboratory of Medical Immunology. In 2023 he was appointed full professor of ‘Infection and Immunity’ at the Medical Faculty of the Radboud University.
Marien de Jonge has a long track record in research on vaccine development and host-pathogen interactions. His research primarily focuses on the mucosal immune system, aiming at the improvement of prevention and diagnosis of respiratory tract infections. Furthermore, his group explores novel intranasal and intradermal vaccination strategies and works on the identification of the immune correlates of protection. In addition, his group aims to develop innovative methods to diagnose and monitor immune-related diseases.
