Stef Stienstra
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Works internationally for several medical and biotech companies as scientific advisory board member and is also an active reserve-officer of the Royal Dutch Navy in the rank of Commander (OF4).
He has finished both his studies in Medicine and in Biochemistry in The Netherlands with a doctorate and has extensive practical experience in cell biology, immuno-haematology, infectous diseases, biodefense and transfusion medicine.
For the Dutch Armed Forces, he is CBRNe specialist with focus on (micro)biological and chemical threats and medical- and environmental functional specialist within the 1st CMI (Civil Military Interaction) Command of the Dutch Armed Forces, gives lectures at the NATO Joint CBRN Defence Center of Excellence in Vyskov, Czech Republic and at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany.
For Expertise France, a French Governmental organization, he was managing in 2015 -2019 an EU CBRN CoE public health project in West Africa with the aim to make the system better prepared to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases. From 2020 till 2023 he will run the medical part of the RRESEMBID project to improve the resillence of the public health on the Caribbean Islands for infectious diseaese, like the COVID-19.
In his civilian position he is at this moment developing with MT-Derm in Berlin (Germany) a novel interdermal vaccination technology as well as a new therapy for cutaneous leishmaniasis for which he has won a Canadian ‘Grand Challenge’ grant. With Hemanua in Dublin (Ireland) he has developed and a patent on an innovative blood separation unit, which is also suitable to produce convalescent plasma for Ebola Virus Disease therapy.
Until shortly he has been project leader for the Dutch national bio-detection, identification and diagnostic capacity, concept development and experimentation project on a part-time basis and is now advisor for medical CBRN, .

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bio defense bioweapon infectious diseases pandemic public health and safety tropical infectious diseases zoonoses
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