Jorgen De Jonge PhD

Jorgen de Jonge studied Chemistry at the University of Groningen with a specialization in Biochemistry. He graduated in 2000. In 2001 he started his PhD research at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University Medical Center Groningen. Here he researched vesicles based on membrane viruses (virosomes) that functioned as a transport system to get nucleic acids into the cell for the purpose of DNA. deoxyribonucleic acid vaccination or siRNA therapy. He received his PhD in 2007. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a preclinical scientist at Solvay Pharmaceuticals on the development of seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccines. Since 2009 he has worked as a scientific assistant, first at the former Netherlands Vaccine Institute and then at the RIVM National Institute for Health and Environment / Center for Immunology of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines.