Jaap Goudsmit is Professor of Poverty-related Infectious Diseases at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, and is the scientific director of the biotech company Crucell. He is also a member of the International aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVA), the most important NGO currently working on an aids vaccine. In 1997, he published Viral Sex. The Nature of AIDS.
(Contact, 2003, 256 pages)
Viruses have gradually and surreptitiously assumed a prominent position in everyday news. ‘People were seldom threatened by viruses to the extent that they are today,’ writes virusresearcher and scientific author Jaap Goudsmit in The Invasion of the Viruses. A great many viruses, bringing various degrees of risk, have arrived on the scene since aids suddenly emerged around twenty-five years ago.
(Pluim, 2021, 224 pages)
In this book, virologist and epidemiologist Jaap Goudsmit, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and scientific director of the Human Vaccines Project, describes the facts and fictions among all the stories about the virus, infections and vaccination.
