Jos van der Meer Scientist

Jos W.M. van der Meer (born April 15, 1947) is professor and chairman at the department of internal medicine of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2003), of which he is vice president and chairman of the division of natural sciences (since 2006). He performs research on cytokines and host defence, chronic fatigue syndrome and Hyper-IgD syndrome(HIDS). He is also active in graphic art and makes cartoons, for example for the Dutch science journal Mediator.