Katrien Lagrou

University Hospitals of Leuven and Belgian National Reference Center for Mycosis, Belgium

Katrien Lagrou is Head of the Microbiology Laboratory at the University Hospitals of Leuven (UZ Leuven), board member of UZ Leuven, Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation at the KU Leuven and coordinates the Belgian National Reference Center for Mycosis. She is full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium. Professor Lagrou obtained her Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Leuven in 1992, and remained there to specialise in Laboratory Medicine between 1992 and 1997. During this period, she received a degree in Mycology from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium and completed her PhD in 2002.

Professor Lagrou’s main interest is the diagnosis and treatment of infections in severely immunocompromised patients, with a focus on invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. She is chair of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) Committee Academy. Professor Lagrou published her research in more than 350 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals.