Ilse De Coster | Head Ambulatory Clinical Trial Unit
University of Antwerp

Ilse De Coster is heading the Ambulatory Clinical Trial Unit of the Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, a research center specialized in conduct of clinical vaccine trials at Vaccinopolis, University of Antwerp in Belgium. She obtained her MD as general practitioner in 1993.  Following completion of the post-graduate course Public health and Tropical Medicine at ITM, Antwerp she joined the University of Antwerp in 2010. Since then, she has been committed to a large number of  clinical vaccine trials as principal and co-investigator and participating in the coordination of vaccine trials within EU projects. She is associate professor at the University of Antwerp and teaches infectious diseases and vaccinology. Since 2024 she became chair of the National Certification Committee for the Eradication of Poliomyelitis and co-chair of the Antwerp Pediatric Clinical Trial Network with a focus on vaccine trials.