Rudolf Eugène Pierre Albertus "Rudy" Ballieux (17 September 1930 – 22 October 2020) was a Dutch immunologist.

Career

Ballieux was born on 17 September 1930 in

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in the Dutch East Indies. After attending the Hogere Burgerschool he studied chemistry and medical science at

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. He earned his

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title in 1963 under F.L.J. Jordan. Ballieux was professor of

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at Utrecht University between 1977 and 1991. He subsequently served another four years as of Psychoimmunophysiology, a bijzonder hoogleraar being a professor paid for by external funds, in his case the Utrecht University Fund. In the later part of his career Ballieux did research on the influence of

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on the immune system. Ballieux was the first Van Loghem Laureate lecturer of the Dutch Society for Immunology in 1981. He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. He died in

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on 22 October 2020, aged 90.

References

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