Prof. Dr. Thomas Tousseyn, MD PhD

• Department of Pathology, University Hospitals UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• Professor of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine KU Leuven and Hematopathologist at the department of Pathology, University Hospital UZ Leuven, Belgium
• Translational Cancer Research Fellow of the Stichting tegen Kanker at the Translational Cell & Tissue Research lab, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• President of the Belgian Working Group of Haematopathology

Thomas Tousseyn is a 42 year old pathologist from Belgium. He obtained his MD in 2001 at KU Leuven and his PhD in 2009 at the VIB (Bart De Strooper). He did postdoctoral research at the University of California San Francisco. He was trained as a haematopathologist by Christiane De Wolf-Peeters in Leuven and did a fellowship with Randy Gascoyne in Vancouver.

Since 2010 he is responsible for all diagnostic haematopathology at the University Hospitals Leuven and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at KU Leuven. He is Executive Committee member of the European Association for Haematopathology and president of the Belgian Working Group for Haematopathology.

Since 2013 he holds a mandate for Translational Cancer Research from the Stichting tegen Kanker. Currently, his research focuses on the role of the tumor microenvironment and the Epstein Barr virus in lymphomagenesis in immunodeficient patients. He (co-)authored 135 manuscripts, with 4070 citations, an H-index of 35 and I10-index of 75.

Correspondence:

Professor of Pathology KU Leuven, University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Pathology, Translational Cell and Tissue Research Lab, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Thomas.tousseyn@uzleuven.be Tel. +32 16 336582