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
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Alex de Vos
Alex is a principal investigator. He looks into the innate immune response against bacteria.
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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
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Joost Wiersinga
Joost is principle investigator and head of the infectious diseases department. His research focuses on the innate immune response in … Continued
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Cees van ‘t Veer
Cees is a principal investigator. He focuses on coagulation during bacterial infections.
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Brendon Scicluna
Brendon’s work focuses on characterising the genomic landscape in specific immune cells during sepsis.
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Prabath Nanayakkara
Prabath is an acute internal medicine specialist and principal investigator. He works on sepsis and efficiency in the acute care … Continued
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Frits Holleman
Frits is an acute internal medicine specialist. He does research on diabetes and sepsis.
Research nurses, technicians and secretaries
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Monique van den Brink
Monique works as a secretary for the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine.
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Danielle Kruijswijk
Danielle is a research technician at the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine
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Regina de Beer
Regina is a research technician at the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine
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Fayola de Lange
Fayola is a research technician at the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine
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Stijn Klarenbeek
Stijn is a research technician at the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine
Post-docs
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Lonneke van Vught
Lonneke studies the characteristics of sepsis patients which are associated with poor outcomes.
PhD-students
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Wanhai Qin
Wanhai works on airway epithelial cells specific DNA methylation in respiratory infections and inflammatory lung diseases.
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Justin de Brabander
Justin focuses on big data analysis and prediction models in critically ill patients with an infection.
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Bob Kullberg
Bob works on changes in the viral microbiome during infections and other lung diseases.
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Tjitske van Engelen
Tjitske researches biomarkers in pneumonia: from patients presenting at the ED to critically ill patients in the ICU.
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Michiel Schinkel
Michiel works on the sepsis team project, with the aim to optimize clinical care for sepsis patients.
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Ivan Ramirez Moral
Ivan aims to enhance the therapeutic arsenal against respiratory infections combining antibiotics with immunomodulators.
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Tom Reijnders
Tom combines methods from immunology, clinical epidemiology and bioinformatics to investigate the impact of a dysregulated host response to severe … Continued
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Jelmer Savelkoel
Jelmer works on melioidosis, a bacterial infection that causes sepsis in the tropics.
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Roos Boerman
Roos researches how we can optimize the use of diagnostics, specifically with the use of Machine Learning.