Profile of Prof Dasja Pajkrt
She is Co-head of Organovir Labs (www.organovirlabs.com), founder of the Amsterdam Organoid Center (ORCAU), coordinator and participator of multiple H2020 and Life Sciences & Health from Health Holland-programs: OrganoVIR, GUTVIBRATIONS,COMMUTE, FOCUS-on-VIRUS, ADVOCATE. She is member of the Dutch network Transition animal-free innovations (TPI), steering committee member of the Amsterdam TPI. She is a member of the Senate of the University of Amsterdam.
Her expertise is on pediatric viral infections, most specifically on picornavirus, cytomegalovirus and HIV infections. Her research group has multiple scientific publications on clinical disease, viral pathogeneses, host-pathogen interactions and outcomes of pediatric viral infections, published in high profile journals.. She supervised over 20 PhD students and about 40 medical or graduate students. She published more than 220 peer reviewed papers.