Prof. Dr. Gideon Kersten

Prof. Dr. Gideon Kersten is a vaccinologist with over 35 years of experience in vaccine development. His special interests are in the characterization and formulation of biologicals. He joined the vaccine division of the Institute for Public Health in the Netherlands in 1985, where he was involved in developing new vaccines and improving existing ones. These included vaccines against polio, influenza, respiratory syncytial (RS) virus, Neisseria meningitidis type B and pertussis. Prof. Kersten was responsible for formulation development and vaccine characterization.

Since 2012, he has held a special professorship in vaccine development at Leiden University in the Netherlands. In 2017, Prof. Kersten became the Chief Scientific Officer of Intravacc, a vaccine R&D institute. In 2020, Prof. Kersten joined Coriolis. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters and supervised 10 PhD students. He is a frequent lecturer at universities, and during the Corona crisis, journalists frequently contacted him to comment on vaccine-related topics.