P. Martin van Hagen has been appointed Professor of Clinical Immunology and is currently the head of the section ‘Clinical Immunology’ within the Department of Internal Medicine of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Besides his appointment in the Erasmus MC he is also a staff member of the Eye Hospital in Rotterdam and Visiting Professor of Immunology of the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Prof. van Hagen is an expert in diagnosing and treating patients with immune-mediated diseases. His department takes care for approximately 3000 patients with well-defined rare immune diseases. In 2020 the section Clinical Immunology will be expanded by merging with the section Allergy. Furthermore the section Clinical Immunology has been recognized as a Centre of Excellence by the Dutch Federation of Universities and is part of the European Reference Network.
Except the clinical work Prof. van Hagen has a long-standing interest in translational research in immune-mediated diseases. This interest has been developed while he was studying Clinical Chemistry and continued after he started his study at the School of Medicine.
Up to now Prof. van Hagen supervised 16 PhD students, who successfully defended their theses. Currently he has 10 PhD students under his supervision; 3 of them is expected to defend their thesis in 2020.
Prof. van Hagen published about 200 peer-reviewed international papers, 18 peer-reviewed national papers, and 10 book chapters. Additionally he is member of many (medical) advisory boards, such as Vice chair of the Medical Advisory Panel of the International Patient Organization of Primary Immunodeficiencies (IPOPI), Member of the working group ‘Chronic Immune diseases’ of the Ministry of Health (Horizonscan) and Board member Dutch working group ‘Immunodeficiencies’ (WID).
