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Hans Dooms, PhD

Hans Dooms

Hans Dooms, PhD, is a researcher at National Jewish Health. Dr. Dooms is in the Theodore and Maxine Murnick Family Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine.



Special Interests


My laboratory studies how dysregulation of pathogenic and protective T cells causes autoimmunity. We are specifically interested in the mechanisms underlying the autoimmune diseases Type 1 Diabetes and Systemic Sclerosis/Scleroderma. We focus on identifying the factors and pathways that enable autoreactive T cells to escape immune regulatory checkpoints and cause tissue damage, with the goal of using this knowledge for the development of innovative immunotherapies.  

Education


Education

1991 - 2000
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, PhD - Biotechnology/Immunology
1987 - 1991
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, MSc - Zoology/Biotechnology

Fellowship

2000 - 2007
University of California San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellow - Immunology

Academic Affiliations


Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus