A multi-disciplinary approach
Our team is made up of around 40 doctors, bio-medical specialists, post-docs, PhD students, research nurses, lab technicians and other support staff.
Staff

Alex de Vos
Alex is a principal investigator. He looks into the innate immune response against bacteria.

Tom van der Poll
Tom van der Poll is a principal investigator. His research focusses on the innate immune response in sepsis, specifically in … Continued

Joost Wiersinga
Joost is principle investigator and head of the infectious diseases department. His research focuses on the innate immune response in … Continued

Cees van ‘t Veer
Cees is a principal investigator. He focuses on coagulation during bacterial infections.

Brendon Scicluna
Brendon’s work focuses on characterising the genomic landscape in specific immune cells during sepsis.

Prabath Nanayakkara
Prabath is an acute internal medicine specialist and principal investigator. He works on sepsis and efficiency in the acute care … Continued

Frits Holleman
Frits is an acute internal medicine specialist. He does research on diabetes and sepsis.
Research nurses, technicians and secretaries

Monique van den Brink
Monique works as a secretary for the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine.

Danielle Kruijswijk
Danielle is a research technician at the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Regina de Beer
Regina is a research technician at the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Fayola de Lange
Fayola is a research technician at the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Stijn Klarenbeek
Stijn is a research technician at the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine
Post-docs

Lonneke van Vught
Lonneke studies the characteristics of sepsis patients which are associated with poor outcomes.
PhD-students

Wanhai Qin
Wanhai works on airway epithelial cells specific DNA methylation in respiratory infections and inflammatory lung diseases.

Justin de Brabander
Justin focuses on big data analysis and prediction models in critically ill patients with an infection.

Bob Kullberg
Bob works on changes in the viral microbiome during infections and other lung diseases.

Tjitske van Engelen
Tjitske researches biomarkers in pneumonia: from patients presenting at the ED to critically ill patients in the ICU.

Michiel Schinkel
Michiel works on the sepsis team project, with the aim to optimize clinical care for sepsis patients.

Ivan Ramirez Moral
Ivan aims to enhance the therapeutic arsenal against respiratory infections combining antibiotics with immunomodulators.

Tom Reijnders
Tom combines methods from immunology, clinical epidemiology and bioinformatics to investigate the impact of a dysregulated host response to severe … Continued

Jelmer Savelkoel
Jelmer works on melioidosis, a bacterial infection that causes sepsis in the tropics.

Roos Boerman
Roos researches how we can optimize the use of diagnostics, specifically with the use of Machine Learning.