Jaap Goudsmit

He is also a prolific writer of non-fiction books: Viral Sex: the Nature of AIDS (1997); Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (2004); Serendipity (2012); The Vaccine Bug: A Personal History of the World of Immunity, 1978–2011 (2013); Immorbidity: Spelling Out a Life Free of Dis-ease (2015); The Time of your Life: Staying Healthy to the End (2016) and The Art of Facing Mortality: A Scientist's View (2016).

He received a Fogarty Visiting Scientist Award to do postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

One Science paper published in 1990 with Goudsmit as senior author created a controversy in the Netherlands and concerned a study of blocking of HIV replication by antisense DNA.

Despite the fact that Goudsmit had to retract this paper, he was chosen by his peers in a 1993 Science article as one of the best European AIDS scientists and is still one of the most productive and most cited virologists worldwide.

In 2002 Goudsmit joined Crucell, a biotechnology company in Leiden, as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Vaccine Research and Development.

Goudsmit is a very productive researcher and author or co-author of more than 560 scientific publications of which ten appeared in Science, six in Nature and twelve in the PNAS.