Mihai Netea

Mihai G. Netea (b. 1968, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) is a Romanian Dutch physician and professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, specialized in infectious disease, immunology, and global health.

Mihai Netea in 2016

Netea studied medicine at the Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca[1]. He received a doctoral degree in 1998 at Radboud University, with a dissertation on the role of cytokines in sepsis,[2] written under the direction of Jos van der Meer.[1]

He joined the University of Colorado as a postdoctoral researcher and then returned to conclude his clinical training as an infectious diseases specialist.[3] Since 2008 he heads the division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Nijmegen University Nijmegen Medical Center.[2]

Netea's field of study includes the innate immune system and its capacity to "memorize" infections,[3] as well as its recognition of Fungi pathogens. He examined system's response to Candida albicans, a sepsis trigger. Additionally, he tried to search for genetic diseases that can make individuals more vulnerable to this type of infections.[2]

Netea co-published more than 900 scientific papers[4] in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Science, and PNAS.[2]

For his academic work, Netea received several grants: a Vidi grant in 2005, a Vici grant in 2010, and European Research Council Consolidator Grant in 2012.[2] In 2016, he was awarded the Spinoza Prize.[5][6] He is a member of Academia Europaea since 2015 and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016.[5][7][8]

Selected publications
  • M.G. Netea (1998). Modulation of proinflammatory cytokines (Thesis). Radboud University Nijmegen. 419 pp. ISBN 9090116931.

References
  1. "FELICITĂRI! Mihai Netea, un cercetător din Cluj, primeşte „Nobelul Olandei". Este considerat un pionier în domeniu". clujcapitala.ro (in Romanian). June 13, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  2. "Mihai Netea: A new idea in immunology". Radboud University Nijmegen. Archived from the original on April 14, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  3. "Prof. Mihai G. Netea MD PhD". ISCOMS. Archived from the original on January 20, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  4. "Prof.dr. M.G. (Mihai) Netea. Publications". NARCIS. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  5. "Mihai Netea. Personal prizes & awards (national & international)". Radboud University Nijmegen. Archived from the original on April 14, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  6. "NWO Spinoza prize 2016". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020.
  7. "Mihae Netea". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  8. "Mihai Netea". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
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