Cornelis J. M. Melief MD, PhD

Prof dr Cornelis J.M. Melief, M.D., Ph.D, is a professor of internal medicine specialized in “immunohematology” at Leiden University and head of the LUMC’s Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, where he leads an internationally acclaimed group focusing on the elucidation of immunological mechanisms that can lead to effective clinically applicable T cell-based immunotherapy of cancer.

He received his Ph.D. degree in 1967 from the University of Amsterdam, where he also received his M.D. degree in 1970. He spent two years (1973/1974) as a postdoctoral fellow at the New England Medical Center and Dana Farber Cancer Center (Harvard) in Boston.