Benjamin Dewals

Background

About Benjamin Dewals

Graduated as Doctor in Veterinary Medicine in 2002, I started a career at the FNRS as a Research Fellow in the Immunology-Vaccinology laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at ULiege. At the end of my PhD, in 2006, I received a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the FNRS and went for out a two-year post-doctoral stay at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 2012, I started my own lab as an FNRS Research Associate in the Immunology-Vaccinology laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at ULiege. In 2020, I was promoted Senior Research Associate of the FNRS to continue directing my research group mainly focusing on 'unconventional immune memory" by CD8 T lymphocytes during infections with helminthic parasites; and the consequences of virus/parasite co-infections on health, and also aims to understand how certain viruses such as gammaherpesviruses induce the development of peripheral CD8 T-cell lymphomas by studying a fatal disease in cattle caused by alcelaphine gammaherpesvirus 1. Since January 2023, I was granted a Professorship at the University of Liège to teach Veterinary parasitology to the students in Veterinary Medicine, while pursuing my research activities Awards- Prize of the Centre d'études Princesse Joséphine-Charlotte for scientific research against viral infections 2019 - Award Prix Hamoir de l'Académie de Médecine de Belgique 2013-2017 - Alumni Award of the Belgian American Education Foundation 2014