Bas Baaten received his Ph.D. from the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London in 2003 in studies on the interaction of herpes viruses at the respiratory mucosa. He trained as a postdoctoral scientist at the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research near Oxford (UK) investigating nasal and pulmonary immunity in response to infection with respiratory viruses, such as RSV and influenza A virus. Dr Baaten continued his work on influenza virus pathogenesis at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in San Diego, USA, where he was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 2007. He joined the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in 2009 as a Staff Scientist and was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor in 2010. In 2012 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Inflammatory Diseases program. Dr Baaten received his first NIH grant in 2008 and has developed a research program on virus-host interactions at the respiratory mucosa with continued extramural funding from research grants from the NIH and the American Foundation for Aging Research.

Phenomena or processes, aging, adaptive immunity, host-pathogen interactions, host defense, inflammation, innate immunity, extracellular matrix, infectious disease processes, virulence factors Related diseases, infectious diseases, aging-related diseases, pandemic influenza Anatomical systems and sites > immune system and inflammation, respiratory system, hematopoietic system Research models, mouse, human Techniques and technology, cellular and molecular imaging, gene knockout (complete and conditional), fluorescence microscopy, in vivo modeling