Marc Van Ranst (20 June 1965) is a Belgian virologist and epidemiologist at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and the Rega Institute for Medical Research. On 1 May 2007 he was appointed as Interministerial comissionar by the Belgian federal government to prepare Belgium for a influenza pandemic.
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Born in Bornem, Van Ranst obtained a BA in medicine at Hasselt University (then L.U.C.) in 1986 and later graduated as a medical doctor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1990. He specialized in Laboratory Medicine (1998) and obtained a PhD at the K.U. Leuven.
He started working at the University Hospitals Leuven in 1998 and became Professor of Virology at the K.U. Leuven.