Prof Dr Sjoerd H. van der Burg
Sjoerd van der Burg, is a professor in experimental cancer immunology and therapy at the Department of Medical Oncology of the Leiden University Medical Center. Here he leads the experimental cancer immunology and therapy group which performs fundamental, translational and clinical studies focusing on those factors of host-tumor interactions that determine the success and failure in immune control of cancer. He has extensive experience with the monitoring of innate and adaptive immune responses and exploits this to guide the development of cancer therapy.