Tom Bosschaerts
Tom Bosschaerts is Chief Operating Officer of ImmuneWatch, a company he co-founded in September 2021 and where he took up his current role in January 2026. He had previously served as its Director of Operations from April 2023.
Based in Lier, Bosschaerts held a series of valorisation manager posts at the University of Antwerp between June 2018 and April 2023, covering life sciences, the PreMeT programme, and infectious diseases and environmental health. Before that he was project and grant manager at eTheRNA, senior project manager life sciences at CMAST from 2014 to 2018, and project manager global public health at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Earlier in his career he was R&D manager at Dafra Pharma and a medical and scientific writer at Archemin.
He studied bio-science engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, graduating in 2005, and went on to complete a PhD in immunology and infectious diseases there in 2010. He attended Atheneum Lier from 1996 to 2000.
Career
Roles
ImmuneWatchChief Operating OfficerJan 2026 – Present
University of Antwerp#27factoryValorisation Manager Infectious diseases and Environmental HealthFeb 2022 – Apr 2023
etherna#448factoryProject and Grant ManagerMay 2017 – Apr 2018
- CMASTSenior Project Manager Life SciencesFeb 2014 – May 2018
- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson#34factoryProject Manager Global Public HealthFeb 2014 – Jan 2017
- Dafra PharmaR&D ManagerApr 2012 – Jan 2014
- ArcheminMedical and Scientific WriterOct 2010 – Mar 2012
Vrije Universiteit Brussel#13factoryPhD in Immunology/Infectious DiseasesSep 2005 – Sep 2010
Education
- Atheneum LierWetenschappen-Wiskunde1996 - 2000
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