Ron Fouchier

Ron Fouchier is a Dutch virologist and Deputy Head of the Erasmus MC Department of Viroscience.

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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 .

Fouchier is elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) and Academia Europaea. In 2006 he received the award of the European Society for Clinical Virology and in 2013 the 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 Highly Cited author.

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