Meta Roestenberg MD

Meta Roestenberg is a professor in vaccinology and clinical head of the Controlled Human Infection Center. She leads a translational research group focused on the development of vaccines for poverty-related infectious diseases. In her (out)patient care she focuses on the daily management of the vaccination department LUMC and she sees patients with (tropical) infectious diseases, parasitic infections, or complex vaccination requests. She is chair of the Dutch Society for Parasitology, has a visiting appointment at the Radboud University Medical Center, and is a member of the WHO advisory committee for malaria vaccines. In the future, she will continue to focus on clinical translational vaccine research to fight infectious diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality among the poorest people in the world.