Philippe Gevaert

Professor in Rhinology and Allergy, Department of Head and Skin · Ghent University · company speakers →

Prof. Dr. Philippe Gevaert (MD, PhD) is full professor in Rhinology and Allergy at the Depart-ment of Head and Skin at the Ghent University, Belgium Since 1998 he is active in the Upper Airway Research Laboratory at the University of Ghent (Prof Dr Paul Van Cauwenberge and Prof Dr Claus Bachert). In 2001 he was working at the Department of Clinical Immunology, Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden (Prof Dr SGO Johansson). His research was focused on local IgE expression and eosinophilic inflammation in allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with and without nasal polyps. In 2004 he passed his PhD thesis on “Eosinophilic inflammation in nasal polyposis: Regulation of interleukin 5 and interleukin 5 receptor α isoforms”. Since 2022, Philippe Gevaert is the Director of the Upper Airways Research Laboratory and Clinical Trial Centre at the Ghent University. Currently, his research is focused on local im-mune modulation, allergen specific immunotherapy and biologicals in allergic rhinitis and nasal polyps. He has conducted several academic and industry sponsored clinical trials with novel treatments in nasal polyps and allergic rhinitis. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers. He received 10 international research awards. He was recognised by Clari-vate as a Highly cited researcher 2023 and 2024.

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