PI’s

Prof. dr. Ronald F. van Vollenhoven

Chair of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the Amsterdam UMC and Director of the Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center ARC in Amsterdam.

r.vanvollenhoven@amsterdamumc.nl

Keywords

Rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, clinical trials

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Prof. dr. Antoine van Kampen

Professor of Medical Bionformatics at the AMC. My research focuses on bioinformatics and systems medicine.

a.h.vankampen@amsterdamumc.nl

http://www.bioinformaticslaboratory.nl

Keywords

Bioinformatics, OMICS, Computational modelling, Biomedical research, Systems Medicine

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Prof. Dr. Niek de Vries
Associate Professor of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, AMC. My research focuses on adaptive immune responses in immune-mediated inflammatory disease.
n.devries1@amsterdamumc.nl
Keywords

Rheumatoid Arthritis, Clinical research, Immunology, OMICS, T/B cell repertoire analysis

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Conny van der Laken MD, PhD

Associate professor, is rheumatologist and principal investigator of translational and clinical advanced imaging studies in rheumatology in Amsterdam, with a particular expertise in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging.
j.vanderlaken@amsterdamumc.nl

Keywords:
Rheumatic diseases, PET, moleculair imaging

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Jeroen den Dunnen, PhD

Immunologist and Assistant Professor at the AMC. My group studies the induction of inflammation by Fc receptors during infection, rheumatic diseases, and inflammatory bowel disease, with the aim to identify new targets for therapy of these diseases.

j.dendunnen@amsterdamumc.nl

Keywords

Immunology, Metabolism, Cell signaling

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Sander Tas, MD, PhD

Internist-Rheumatologist at the Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center, AMC. My translational research has a strong focus on the molecular regulation of inflammation and includes basic research on signal transduction, in particular the role of NF-κB signaling and other pathways in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, DC vaccination, studies in animal models of arthritis, DCE-MRI and PET-CT imaging, and state-of-the-art tissue analysis (human and rodents).

s.w.tas@amsterdamumc.nl

Keywords

signal transduction, endothelial cells, vasculitis, animal models

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Lisa van Baarsen, Associate professor, PhD

Starting from a genome-wide expression profiling approach, my research group aims at delineating immune responses in lymphoid organs and synovial tissue during the earliest (preclinical) phases of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) development.

http://ams-rc.com/medewerkers/baarsen/

e.g.vanbaarsen@amsterdamumc.nl

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Marleen van de Sande, M.D., PhD

Rheumatologist at the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the Amsterdam UMC location AMC. My clinical and translational research focuses on the immunopathogenesis of the earliest phases of spondyloarthritis.

 m.g.vandesande@amsterdamumc.nl

Keywords

spondyloarthritis, animal models, pre-SpA cohort

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Joep Grootjans, MD,PhD

Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Amsterdam UMC. 

My research focuses at understanding the pathogenesis of immune-mediated diseases with a special interest for inflammatory bowel diseases. As a physician scientist, my ultimate goal is to translate these finding into the discovery of novel therapies.

j.grootjans@amsterdamumc.nl

Keywords

Mucosal immunology, immunotherapy, inflammatory bowel disease

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Prof. Dr. Sue Gibbs

 Professor of Skin and Mucosa Regenerative Medicine, VUMC. Focus on human skin and mucosa biology, in particular animal alternative methods to develop novel therapeutic strategies for treating and preventing human disease. Current focus is developing next generation immune competent skin and mucosa tissue engineered constructs, including organ-on-chip, to understand the (patho)physiology of immune related diseases, sensitization and tolerance with the aim of identifying novel drug targets for personalized as well as general therapeutic strategies.

s.gibbs@amsterdamumc.nl

Keywords

organoid culture, mucosa, immunology

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Prof dr Alexandre E. Voskuyl

Professor of rheumatology, with special interest in systemic autoimmune diseases

Rheumatologist with large clinical experience in the diagnosis and management of patients with rheumatic diseases, in particular systemic autoimmune diseases (SLE, systemic sclerosis, vasculitis). His research focus on (risk factors for) the outcome of patients with systemic autoimmune diseases, and the evaluation of biomarkers (blood, tissue, imaging) and clinical trials in those diseases.

ae.voskuyl@amsterdamumc.nl

Keywords

SLE, systemic sclerosis, vasculitis, biomarkers, clinical trial, cohort studies

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