Cees van Kooten

Cees van Kooten (1963) is a Professor in Experimental Nephrology & Transplant Immunology at the Leiden University Medical Center. He is trained as an immunologist and completed his PhD research at the Bloodbank Sanquin in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Following fellowships at the Department of Clinical Immunology in Göteborg, Sweden, and the Immunological Research Institute of Schering Plough in Dardilly, France, he joined the Department of Nephrology at Leiden in 1995. Since 2004, he has headed the immunological research laboratory within the department.