NETEA Mihai G.

Mihai Netea was born and studied medicine in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He completed his PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on studies investigating the cytokine network in sepsis. After working as a post-doc at the University of Colorado, he returned to Nijmegen where he finished his clinical training as an infectious diseases specialist, and where he currently heads the division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Nijmegen University Nijmegen Medical Center. He is mainly interested in understanding the memory traits of innate immunity (trained immunity), the factors influencing variability of human immune responses, and immunotherapy in human infections and immune-mediated diseases. He has over 1450 peer-reviewed publications, and an H-index of 182. He is member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences, and he is a receiver of Spinoza Prize (2016), Reinier de Graaf Medal (2025), and Emil von Behring Prize (2025).

Abstract: « Trained immunity: long-term reprogramming of innate immune responses”