Rudi Hendriks

Prof. Rudi Hendriks is a Full Professor at Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) in the department of Pulmonary Medicine. His research focuses on immunological mechanisms underlying respiratory and autoimmune diseases, including asthma, cystic fibrosis, and spondyloarthritis. He has published 251 peer-reviewed articles and supervised 34 students.

Key research interests include B cell biology, T cell immunology, mast cell function, and inflammatory pathways in chronic respiratory diseases. His recent work investigates aberrant B cell signaling in spondyloarthritis, epigenetic regulation of mast cell activity, and transcriptomic profiling in cystic fibrosis.