Global Journal of Digestive Diseases

Senior clinical investigator’ at the Flemish Foundation for Scientific Research

Xavier Bossuyt gained his medical qualification at the Catholic University of Leuven. He was trained in clinical pathology and clinical laboratory immunology at the University Hospitals Leuven and at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. He is a ‘clinical laboratory immunologist’ at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven. At the academic level, he is professor of medicine with research focus on protein chemistry, the immune response to Streptococcus pneumoniae, and serologic markers in autoimmune diseases. Xavier Bossuyt holds a position as ‘senior clinical investigator’ at the Flemish Foundation for Scientific Research (FWO Vlaanderen).