GEENEN Vincent

Professeur émérite

GEENEN Vincent

Faculté de Médecine
Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques

ULiège address
Bât. B36 Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques
Quartier Hôpital
avenue Hippocrate 15
4000 Liège 1
Belgique
Local
institut de Recherche GIGA, CHU-B34, 5e étage
ULiège phone number
+32 4 3662550
ULiège phone number
+32 4 3662552
ULiège Fax
+32 4 3669859
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Mobile
+32 477 469 095
Conseil sectoriel à la recherche et à la valorisation
Sciences de la Santé
Personal website (s)
GIGA-I3 Neuroimmunoendocrinologie

University degrees
1982 : Docteur en Médecine, chirurgie et accouchements (ULg)
1987 : Docteur en Sciences biomédicales (ULg)
1996 : Agrégation de l'Enseignement supérieur (ULg)

Biography

Vincent Geenen is  F.R.S.-FNRS director of research , professor of embryology and history of biomedical research at the University of Liège, and clinical head in endocrinology at Liège CHU. He is in charge of the Centre of Immunoendocrinology that was opened in January 2012 at the GIGA-R research centre. He is secretary of the Fonds Léon Fredericq for biomedical research at Liège CHU and member of the F.R.S.-FNRS SVS-4 committee.

Vincent Geenen and his team have been working on the thymus, the immune system central lymphoid organ, for the past 30 years. His research has demonstrated that the thymus exercises a unique role in teaching the immune system to recognise and tolerate neuroendocrine functions, and that a dysfunction of the thymus is involved in the development of the selective autoimmunity of type 1 diabetes. The Centre of Immunoendocrinology is currently developing a new type of negative/tolerogenic vaccination against type 1 diabetes.

Vincent Geenen was also the coordinator for the FP6 Eurothymaide integrated project (2004-2008). This consortium of 20 academic laboratories and 5 biotech SMEs worked on the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to autoimmune diseases based on new knowledge of the tolerogenic pathways of the thymus.

 

Research field

  • Sciences bio-médicales et agricoles

Duties or mandates

  • Directeur de Recherches au FRS-FNRS
  • Professor of History of biomedical research (Medical School) and Developmental biology (Sciences School)
  • Chef de clinique en Endocrinologie (CHU Liège)

Scientific distinctions

  • Prix Semper du FNRS (1988)
  • Prix SmithKline Beecham de l'Académie royale de Médecine (1992)
  • Prix des Alumni de la Fondation Universitaire (1993)
  • Prix de la Fondation Jaumain ULg (1996)
  • Mention in Who's Who in the World and in Who's Who in Science and Engineering (1996)
  • Chairman of the 3rd Gordon Conference on Neuroendocrine-Immunology (1997)
  • Prix de la Fondation A. Rahier (Diabétologie) (2001)
  • Prix littéraire de la Fondation Prince Alexandre de Belgique (2014)
  • Président de la Commission Immunologie & Maladies infectieuses - ATIP Avenir CNRS & INSERM (2018)