Koen van der Maaden

Koen van der Maaden is assistant professor in the Tumor Immunology group at the department of Immunology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He has a background in Pharmacy and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, and did a PhD on Microneedle-Mediated vaccine delivery. He is co-author of 35 peer-reviewed publications: 31 primary research papers (of which one clinical trial) and 4 reviews and inventor of 5 patents. In his research group he focusses on the development of peptide-based cancer vaccine formulations, fabrication of thermostable intradermal microneedle-based vaccines, and intratumoral delivery devices.