Kees Weijer
In 1968 I finished my study of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Utrecht. From 1968 till 1980 I was trained as veterinary pathologist at the department of Pathology of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) in Amsterdam and worked on comparative oncology between dog, cat and man. I received a PhD in Medicine from the University in Amsterdam in 1979. During my sabbatical in 1980 at Oswald Jarrett lab at the Veterinary School, University of Glasgow, I worked on Feline leukemia virus (FeLV). In 1982 I joined the department of Immunology of the NCI as staff scientist and continued my work on FeLV and Feline Immunodeficiency virus (FIV). In 1994 I started my work on the Human Immune System mice as a model in which the development and differentiation of human T cells, can be studied in vivo. In 2002 I moved, together with the group of Hergen Spits, to the Academic Medical Center (AMC), of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where my work on the HIS mice continued.
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