Raymond Hamers

Raymond Hamers (7 September 1932 – 22 August 2021)^[1] was a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium. He discovered a special type of antibodies called single-domain antibodies or nanobodies.^[2][3]

Raymond Hamers
Born	7 September 1932
Died	22 August 2021  (aged 88)

See also

• Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)
• Ablynx

References

1. "(Dutch) Prof. Em. Raymond Hamers, ontdekker nanobodies, overleden". Medi-Sfeer. 22 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
2. Raymond-hamers-vub-professor-and-one-scientific-founders-vib-passed-away-august-22nd-age-88
3. 5 Things You Need to Know About Nanobodies

• Hamers-Casterman C, Atarhouch T, Muyldermans S, Robinson G, Hamers C, Songa EB, Bendahman N, Hamers R., Naturally occurring antibodies devoid of light chains, Nature. 1993 June 3;363(6428):446-8.
• Matthyssens G et al., Two variant surface glycoproteins of Trypanosoma brucei have a conserved C-terminus, Nature, 293, 230–233, 1981
• Strosberg AD et al., A rabbit with the allotypic phenotype: ala2a3 b4b5b6, J Immunol, 113, 1313–1318, 1974