Mihai G. Netea (born 1968, Cluj, Romania) is a Romanian Dutch physician and professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, specialized in infectious disease, immunology, and global health.

[1] He received a doctoral degree in 1998 at Radboud University, with a dissertation on the role of cytokines in sepsis,[2] written under the direction of Jos van der Meer.

[1] He joined the University of Colorado as a postdoctoral researcher and then returned to conclude his clinical training as an infectious diseases specialist.

[2] Netea's field of study includes the innate immune system and its capacity to "memorize" infections,[3] as well as its recognition of Fungi pathogens.

PMID 27102489.. Netea's research attempts to translate information obtained through the assessment of human genetic variation in patients into novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.