Harry Janssen
Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands
Harry Janssen is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he holds the Francis Family Chair in Hepatology. He currently works at Toronto General Hospital as Chief of Hepatology and Director of the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease.
Dr. Janssen graduated from medical school in the Netherlands. During his study he spent one year as research student in Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic. He obtained his PhD in Rotterdam on the role of immune modulating therapy in hepatitis B. Following his training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology in the Netherlands, he returned to the Mayo Clinic for a Research Fellowship in Hepatology. In 2001 he became a faculty member and in 2006 he was appointed as full Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section Liver Diseases and Transplantation in Rotterdam. In 2013 he came to Toronto where he merged all 3 liver programs into the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, to become one of the largest liver programs in North America based at the Toronto General Hospital.
Dr. Janssen has coordinated numerous clinical and translational studies on treatment for chronic viral hepatitis and other liver diseases. His main research interest is cure of chronic hepatitis B. He has published more than 500 original peer-reviewed papers and many book chapters. His H-index is over 100 and he has been cited 45,000 times (Google Scholar). He has received several prestigious international awards and has mentored over 50 PhD students, of whom many have taken leadership positions in the field of Hepatology or Virology.