Maries van den Broek, PhD
Institute of Experimental Immunology
University of Zürich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Maries van den Broek studied biology at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands with a focus on biochemistry (isolation and characterisation of collagen type IV and V from bovine lung and human placenta), molecular biology (cloning of surface antigens of sexual stages of Plasmodium falciparum) and immunology (characterisation of anti-DNA antibodies in murine and human systemic lupus erythematodes).
She received her PhD from the same university on animal models for rheumatoid arthritis.
Maries performed her postdoctoral training in several laboratories, where she worked on malaria (Joep Meuwissen, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and systemic lupus erythematodes (SLE) (Lucien Aarden, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
She then moved to Zurich to work as a principal investigator on anti-viral immunity and T cell tolerance (Rolf Zinkernagel, Hans Hengartner, University of Zurich, Switzerland).
From 2009 until 2013, Maries headed the Laboratory of Tumorimmunology in the Department of Oncology (University Hospital Zurich).
In 2014 her group became an independent research unit in the Institute of Experimental Immunology (University of Zurich). Her lab focuses on the interaction between the immune system and cancer using different animal models for cancer as well as material from cancer patients and as such performs fundamental and translational research.
