Primary Job Title Professor - Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology Primary Organization 
Utrecht University
Location Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male Also Known As Willem
William Eden is a Professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology of the University of Utrecht, NL. William's research interest is in the area of vaccines, infectious diseases and chronic inflammation.
William is immunologist and medical microbiologist. William was a Ph.D. student at the Dept. of Immuno-hematology (Jon
J Red) at Leyden University and he received in 1983 a prestigious prize from the Royal Society of England (Bruno Mendel Award) what made it possible for him to stay for two years in the group of Irun Cohen at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, where he worked on experimental autoimmunity. In 1984 William received the Prix Zambon Benelux for his work in the area of infectious disease pathology.
Soon after his return from Israel Eden Attracted attention Because of two simultaneous publications in the Lancet. This was a trigger for the daily newspaper Volkskrant to highlight the work of William Concerning the relationship between infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.
In 1988 William and colleagues discovered the role of stress proteins in self-tolerance. This serendipitous finding was published in Nature and was for two years in the top 100 or mostly cited paper in the biomedical domain. Resulting from this original finding are still current activities or of William and his group directed towards development of an immuno-modulatory vaccine against chronic inflammatory diseases on the basis of heat shock proteins. Eden is scientific director of Trajectum Pharma-which is a University of Utrecht derived spin-off company.
William has coordinated 4 European consortia. The activities of Eden are in both the veterinary and the human domain. William is a Member of the Dutch Health Council (National Vaccination Program) and the Council Group on Infection and Immunity.
William is a Member of EVAG, the standing committee of European Vaccine Policies of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
