Zwi N. Berneman is Professor of Hematology at the University of Antwerp and Head of the Division of Hematology of the Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium. He is the Medical Director of the Center for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, the GMP facility of the Antwerp University Hospital for hematopoietic stem cell processing and cell therapy with eye limbus stem cell cultures and dendritic cells. His laboratory pioneered the method of mRNA electroporation and has applied it to the fields of dendritic cells and stem cells. His main clinical research focus is on dendritic cell vaccination in malignant conditions and in chronic viral infections such as AIDS. Basic research ongoing in his laboratory include the interactions between dendritic cells and the innate immune system, the use of dendritic cells for induction of tolerance and the fate of (stem) cells implanted in the central nervous system.
