The Present and Future of Lung Cancer Screening – Self-paced module

Professor Joachim Aerts has been the Head of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, since 2018. His main research focus is on fundamental, translational, and clinical research in immuno-oncology, with a strong focus on lung cancer and mesothelioma. As principal investigator and as co-investigator, Professor Aerts is involved in many studies in both humans and animals.

Professor Aerts is the leader of the core network on mesothelioma and a board member of the European Reference Network on Rare Respiratory Diseases (ERN-Lung) and a member of the board of directors of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). He is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences, and he is a scientific committee member of multiple national and international societies, such as NVALT, EORTC, ASCO, ESMO, ETOP, AACR, ERS, and ATS. Professor Aerts is a co-author of more than 200 articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.