Peter de Haan

Peter has a virology background and has been active in R&D for more than twenty-five years.

Peter’s academic career started as a Virologist at the Wageningen University in The Netherlands, where he obtained his PhD in 1991. In 1991 he joined Novartis Seeds where he held several research management positions in the field of plant biotechnology. He is a co-founder of Phytovation B.V., formerly active in biopharmaceuticals and vaccine production, and of its subsidiary Viruvation B.V., which was active in developing therapeutic AIDS and HCV vaccines.

Throughout his career Peter has worked on applications of virus-associated technologies. He has a long-standing expertise in virology, molecular & cell biology, immunology and is highly experienced in molecular cloning activities, tissue culture of mammalian cells and production of (recombinant) virus particles in mammalian cell systems.

Peter is the (co-) author of more than fifty peer reviewed scientific articles. Next to this, he is the company’s intellectual property (IP) manager. Peter has a longstanding expertise with IP matter as (co-) inventor of more than twelve different awarded patents and patent applications.