Jean‑Claude Dujardin

Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp

Title: Parasites vs humans: who will win the arms race?

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Jean‑Claude Dujardin is a full professor at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM). He graduated in Zoology at UNamur in 1983 and obtained a diploma in Tropical Medical Biology at the ITM in 1984. He joined ITM in 1986, where he introduced molecular biology in the discipline of parasitology.

From 1990 to 1992, he was a visiting scientist at the Instituto de Medicina Tropical A. von Humboldt (Lima, Peru) and earned his Ph.D. in Science (Zoology) at the Free University of Brussels in 1995 under Prof. R. Hamers, focusing on the significance of karyotype diversity in Leishmania