Koen Andries is a Belgian Janssen Pharmaceutica scientist and professor at the University of Antwerp. In 2005 he and his team published a discovery about a new di-

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- Quinoline-based drug ( R207910), now called bedaquiline, which promises a shorter and simpler treatment for drug resistant

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(TB).

Career

Andries graduated as a

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and obtained a PhD at the University of Ghent (

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...

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) in 1975. He continued his career at the university until 1982, when he started working at Janssen Pharmaceutica in

Beerse Beerse () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Beerse proper and . In 2021, Beerse had a total population of 18,194. The total area is 37.48 km2 (14.5 sq mi). The pharmaceutica ...

until 2004. In 2004 he continued his research at

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Recognition

*2014 winner of the European Inventor Award in the Industry category Invention: Drug against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
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References

External links

Koen Andries
( University of Antwerp)
Koen Andries and his team
(

) Living people Belgian pharmacologists Flemish scientists Johnson & Johnson people Male veterinarians Ghent University alumni Academic staff of the University of Antwerp Belgian veterinarians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Belgium-bio-stub