Wim Jiskoot PhD

Wim Jiskoot graduated as a pharmacist in 1987 and received his PhD degree in 1991 at Utrecht University on pharmaceutical aspects of monoclonal antibodies. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah (1991-1993) he studied protein-ligand interactions using biophysical techniques. From 1994-1998 he was head of the Department of Bacterial Vaccine Development at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven. In 1998 he became a staff member at the Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht University, where he focused his research on formulation and physicochemical characterization of therapeutic proteins and vaccines. In March 2006 he was appointed as full professor at the Division of Drug Delivery Technology, LACDR. His current research is concentrated on the formulation and delivery of therapeutic proteins and vaccines. Since 2013 he is working part-time at Leiden University in combination with a part-time employment as scientific advisor at Coriolis Pharma, Martinsried, Germany.