Sandra Tuyaerts, PhD (1977), received her Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences in 1999 and her PhD degree in Medical Sciences in 2007 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. She is currently a principal research scientist at UZ Brussel and assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and appointed as a voluntary research fellow at KU Leuven. Sandra Tuyaerts previously worked as a post-doctoral scientist at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), as scientist at Tibotec, as a senior post-doctoral scientist at KU Leuven, and as a visiting research fellow at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne. Her research interests focus on tumor immunology and immunotherapy for different tumor types, with a special interest in dendritic cell vaccines and immune response monitoring. Sandra Tuyaerts is a member of the European Academy of Tumor Immunology (EATI) and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).