Crucell’s Chief Scientific Officer Jaap Goudsmit pays a personal tribute to the man who discovered dendritic cells. Ralph Steinman (1943–2011) was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role…
More than three decades ago, two young researchers worked together in a lab in Amsterdam. One was fascinated by viruses, the other by bacteria—and so they took off in different directions. Now they have joined forces again to take Crucell’s…
A visit to the Duomo of Sienna: looking up versus looking down The more unsure and insecure we are about our and the world’s future, the more we want to know what lies ahead. Animals sail on instinct and do…
Crucell’s Chief Scientific Officer Jaap Goudsmit explains why Haitians should have been vaccinated against cholera following the 2010 earthquake, and why they weren’t. In 1884, Robert Koch discovered the cause of cholera: the curved Vibrio bacteria, then called ‘comma-bacilli’. But…
Crucell’s Chief Scientific Officer Jaap Goudsmit continues his series on childhood vaccination, focusing this time on hepatitis B. As he points out, protecting children against this infectious disease also eliminates a leading cause of liver cancer later in life. One…
