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

Jacky de Leeuw

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

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

Jorn Hartman

Jorn is a research technician with the Microbiota Center Amsterdam (MICA).

Richarda Vleghels

Richarda is a research nurse and works on the sepsis team project.

Post-docs

Joe Butler

Joe uses genomic data to gain insights into sepsis pathophysiology.

Fabrice Uhel

Fabrice studies immune system dysregulation in sepsis, specifically in ICU patients.

Hessel Peters-Sengers

Hessel researches kidney failure caused by infectious diseases.

Floor Hugenholtz

Floor researches the changes in the microbiome during infections.

Lonneke van Vught

Lonneke studies the characteristics of sepsis patients which are associated with poor outcomes.

PhD-students

Marleen Slim

Marleen’s research focuses on immunotherapies for sepsis.

Erik Michels

Erik works on the discovering patterns of the host response during pneumonia.

Wanhai Qin

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

Liza Pereverzeva

Liza researches immunological changes in pneumococcal pneumonia.

Christine van Linge

Christine works on changing the innate immune response during pneumonia.

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.

Alex Schuurman

Alex researches immunological changes during pneumonia.

Harjeet Virk

Harjeet works on the MARS India project to understand sepsis pathophysiology.

Max Jacobs

Max studies the role of gut microbiota in the host defense against infections.

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.

Mariska Meijer

Mariska aims to uncover the role of several genes and proteins on during sepsis.

Berke Gürkan

Berke’s research focuses on the role of IRAK-M in sepsis induced immunosuppression.

Zhe Liu

Zhe focuses on signal transduction and inhibition during pneumonia.

Ivan Ramirez Moral

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

Valentine Leopold

Valentine researches platelet metabolism during sepsis.

Osoul Chouchane

Osoul researches the influence of platelet metabolism on infections.

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.

Nora Wolff

Nora studies the role of gut microbiota in sepsis.

Roos Boerman

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

Bas Haak

Bas researches changes in the microbiome during sepsis.