Jaap Goudsmit

Who is Jaap Goudsmit?

Jaap Goudsmit is Dutch scientist, known for his research in the field of AIDS.

In 1978 Jaap Goudsmit received his MD degree with honor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam. He was awarded a Fogarty fellowship, and joined the research on kuru with Nobel Prize winner Daniel Carleton Gajdusek. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1982. He received a Fogarty Visiting Scientist Award to do postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1983 Jaap Goudsmit became board certified in the Netherlands as a Medical Microbiologist. In 1989 he became professor in virology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1990 he was involved in a controversy in a research project to use antisense as a means of inhibiting HIV-replication.

Jaap Goudsmit has been head of the Department of Human Retrovirology at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam from 1996 to 2002 and chairman of the AMC Research Institute for Infectious Diseases and the AMC Institute for Science Education. Since 1984 he is one of the principal researcher of the Amsterdam Cohort Studies on HIV infection and AIDS among homosexual men and HIV drug users.