Ronaldus (Ron) Adrianus Maria Fouchier (born 13 October 1966) is a Dutch virologist who is Deputy head of the Erasmus MC Department of Viroscience, headed by Prof. Marion Koopmans.

Notability

Fouchier is notable for his research on respiratory viruses of humans and animals, antigenic drift, and influenza virus zoonoses, transmission and pandemics. His team contributed substantially to the identification and characterization of various “new” viruses, such as human metapneumovirus, human coronavirus NL63, SARS coronavirus, MERS coronavirus, and influenza A virus subtype H16. Fouchier is elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), the

Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities), located on the east side of the Spaarne in downtown Haarlem, Netherlands, was established in 1752 and is the oldest society for the scie ...

(KHMW) and Academia Europaea. In 2006 he received the Heine-Medin award of the European Society for Clinical Virology and in 2013 the Huibregtsen award for top innovative science with societal impact. He is a member of the CEIRR Center coordinated at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Fouchier is a web-of-science Highly Cited author.

Awards and honours

2006 - Heine Medin award of the European Society for Clinical Virolog

2013 - Huibregtsen award for top innovative science with societal impac

Selected publications

Human metapneumovirus: A newly discovered human pneumovirus isolated from young children with respiratory tract disease
van den Hoogen BG, de Jong JC, Groen J, Kuiken T, de Groot R, Fouchier RA, Osterhaus AD. Nat Med. 2001 Jun;7(6):719-24. doi: 10.1038/89098. PMID: 11385510
Human coronavirus NL63: A previously undescribed coronavirus associated with respiratory disease in humans
Fouchier RA, Hartwig NG, Bestebroer TM, Niemeyer B, de Jong JC, Simon JH, Osterhaus AD. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Apr 20;101(16):6212-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400762101. Epub 2004 Apr 8. PMID: 15073334
SARS coronavirus: Aetiology: Koch's postulates fulfilled for SARS virus
Fouchier RA, Kuiken T, Schutten M, van Amerongen G, van Doornum GJ, van den Hoogen BG, Peiris M, Lim W, Stöhr K, Osterhaus AD. Nature. 2003 May 15;423(6937):240. doi: 10.1038/423240a. PMID: 12748632
MERS coronavirus: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia
Zaki AM, van Boheemen S, Bestebroer TM, Osterhaus AD, Fouchier RA. N Engl J Med. 2012 Nov 8;367(19):1814-20. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1211721. Epub 2012 Oct 17. PMID: 23075143
Influenza virus H16: Characterization of a novel influenza A virus hemagglutinin subtype (H16) obtained from black-headed gulls
Fouchier RA, Munster V, Wallensten A, Bestebroer TM, Herfst S, Smith D, Rimmelzwaan GF, Olsen B, Osterhaus AD. J Virol. 2005 Mar;79(5):2814-22. doi: 10.1128/JVI.79.5.2814-2822.2005. PMID: 15709000

External links

* Prof. Ron Fouchier is member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW
KNAW / Ron Fouchier
* Prof. Ron Fouchier is member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW

* Prof. Ron Fouchier is member of the Academia Europae

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Scopus Profile

(in Dutch)
Interview with virologist Ron Fouchier
(in Dutch) * Collaborating investigator of the CRIPT centre in CEIR

* Heine Medin awar

* Huibregtsenprij

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