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Riny Janssen
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Workpackage 33 Leader Dr Riny Janssen studied biology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She undertook her PhD in the Department of Molecular Microbiology in Utrecht. Her thesis was entitled: ‘PhoE of E. coli as a carrier for foreign T-cell epitopes: possibilities and limitations’.
Follwing this, she worked as a post-doc at Imperial College, London, where she studied the host response to mycobacterial infection in the context of the hygiene hypothesis, and at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands, where her research focused on immune function in patients that are extremely sensitive to infection with poorly pathogenic mycobacteria and Salmonellae.
Currently Riny is working at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Here she studies host–pathogen interaction during Salmonella and Campylobacter infection. Another line of her research focuses on host susceptibility to respiratory syncytial virus infection in children.
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