Maria Yazdanbakhsh#
| Membership Number: | 5441 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.lumc.nl/org/parasitologie/medewerkers/MariaYazdanbakhshheadparasitologygrouplumc |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7666-1441 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Head of Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center
- 2018 - present Board member, Leiden University Center of Infectious diseases
- 2018 - present Steering committee of Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for Global Development (WOTRO)
- 2018 - present Scientific coordinator of Leiden Controlled Human Infection Center (L-CHIC)
- 2017 - present Chair of Internationalisation Committee of LUMC
- 2015 - present President of Dutch Society for Parasitology
- 2014 - present Honorary visiting professorship- University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2014 - present Member of Management Team of LUMC Medical Research Profile Immunity, Infection and Tolerance
- 2013 - present Chair of Half Minor Education Committee
- 2010 - present Honorary visiting professorship- Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Gabon
Fields of Scholarship
- Human Immunology
- Immuno-epidemiology
- Parasitology & neglected and poverty related tropical diseases (helminths and malaria)
- Mass cytometry and analysis of high dimensional data
- Immune modulation and the link between communicable and non-communicable diseases
- Human infection models
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Delphine Parrott Lecture of Glasgow University
- 2017 Leiden University Dies lecture in 2017
- 2014 Honorary visiting professorship, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2010 Honorary visiting professorship, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Gabon
- 2007 Lecture, Council of Science Editors' global theme issue on poverty and human development, NIH
- 1997 Merck Sharp & Dohme Award in Human Parasitology
- 1987 Marie Curie Scholorship
- 1981 Leyton Science Research Award, King’s College London
