University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
Bas Vastert (1975) is a pediatric rheumatologist and head of the department of pediatric rheumatology & immunology in the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital Utrecht. He obtained his PhD on mechanisms of disease and therapy in severe Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in 2013. From 2013, he started a translational research line in the laboratory of translational immunology and from March 2017 he is co-heading the v Loosdregt-Vastert group within the Laboratory of Translational Immunology in UMC Utrecht, focusing on novel therapeutic strategies in JIA through translation of cutting edge basic science into clinical benefit.
He is currently leading a multi-center prospective trial implementing a biomarker driven stop-strategy for rIL-1RA therapy in systemic JIA in the Netherlands. Since 2017 he is co-leading UCAN CANDU, the Dutch-Canadian bi-national prospective translational cohort study in childhood artrhitis, together with dr Joost Swart (Utrecht, Netherlands), professor Susa Benseler (Calgary, Ca) and professor Rae Yeung (Toronto, Ca).
Care Transformation in Childhood Arthritis via Precision Medicine
Monday, October 27, 2025
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Central Time
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