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Dr. Anton Jetten received his Ph.D in Microbiology from the University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Following postdoctoral fellowships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Dr. Jetten joined the NCI, NIH in 1980 and the NIEHS in 1982 as Principal Investigator and Head of the Cell Biology Section. He became Acting Chief in 2009 and Chief of the Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory (IIDL) in 2011, and since 2017 acts as Deputy Chief of IIDL. His research has been focusing on the study of the mechanism of action and the physiological functions of the retinoic acid-related orphan receptors (RORs) and GLI-similar (GLIS) transcription factor subfamilies as well as their roles in disease, particularly inflammation, autoimmune disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and cystic kidney diseases. Dr. Jetten has published over 300 papers, to date, in scientific journals.