Hergen Spits
During my PhD period I was trained in the Netherland Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam and the Dana Farber Cancer center in Boston and received my PhD in medical Sciences in 1983 at the University of Amsterdam. During my PhD I developed methods to generate and maintain cloned lines of human T cells. After a brief post doc in the lab of Jan de Vries at the NKI, I moved to Dardilly France to work for Schering Plough, France from 1985-1988 followed by a four year tenure as senior staff scientist at DNAX research institute (owned by Schering Plough). At Schering Plough France and DNAX I worked at characterization of human Th1 and Th2 cells. In 1993 I returned to the NKI in Amsterdam where I was first senior staff scientist and then from 2000 head immunology. In 2002 I moved to the academic medical center (AMC) at the university of Amsterdam. Both at the NKI and the AMC I worked on development of human lymphocytes and establishment of a small animal model with a functional human immune system..
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