Josephine Charlotte Prize

Meuse-Rhine Journal [LIFE-SCI: Liège, November 9]
The Princess Joséphine Charlotte center for research in biology has awarded its bi-annual prize to Dr Alain Vanderplasschen, Professor of Immunology at the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Liège. Alain Vanderplasschen completed his studies in veterinary medicine in 1991. He was one of the last students to graduate from the veterinary school of Cureghem in Brussels. With his diploma in hand he became a candidate researcher for the FNRS, and defended a doctoral dissertation in Sciences, which dealt with Bovine herpesvirus 4 (Bo-HV 4), in 1995. Devoted to basic research in biology, he then began work on a “thèse d’agrégation”, which he carried out at the William Dunn School of Pathology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford (UK). Next, he became a researcher with the FNRS.

Returning to Liège in 1998, Alain Vanderplasschen continued his career with the FNRS, and became the first veterinarian to be named to a permanent position in the history of the FNRS. He climbed the FNRS ladder, becoming a lead researcher in 2002 and a director of research in 2006. He was at that time 39 years old, and the youngest director of research in the FNRS. Upon his return to England he began to study the salivary glands of ticks, hoping to find a way to fight the infections they transmit.

He received his award for studies of the interaction between hosts and the herpes virus.

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Source: http://www.meuse-rhine-journal.com/html/Lif_20091109105130.html

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