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Research group/lab

Clinical aspects of exotic viruses

At the Viroscience department of Erasmus Medical Centre, EVI is the research group that engages in the study of Exotic Viral Infectious diseases.

About our research group/lab

Our research

Our focus

The main clinical symptoms caused by exotic viral infections are encephalitis, infection of the brain tissue, and haemorrhagic fever. The EVI Study Group for Exotic Viral Infections therefore focusses mainly  on these two important clinical manifestations.

How do we perform this research?

The research within the study group Exotic Viral Infections is characterized by its translational nature, a patient-oriented question is translated into a basic research question and vice versa: the translation from the laboratory back to the patient, in other words: 'from bench to bedside and vice versa'. The research focusses on the relationship between the different viruses and the inflammatory and coagulation cascade; a relationship which is important in the development of disease.

What is our motivation

Infectious diseases still - and increasingly - form a major health risk, not only in less developed countries but also to an increasing extent in developed countries, including the Netherlands. The illusion that infectious diseases have practically been banned from the world was abandoned by us more than thirty years ago. That illusion was created because of an underestimation of the complex dynamics between infectious diseases, man and the environment, in combination with an overestimation of the power of our knowledge, knowledge acquired from science.

Our projects

Ongoing research projects

The Exotic Viral Infections group of the department of Virology has four ongoing research projects: 

  • Semester studies
  • Trevi studies
  • COVA study
  • Hi Temp study

Key Publications

Selection of publications:

Collaborations

Our team

Semester studies

  • Prof. Eric C.M. van Gorp
  • Dr. Marco Goeijenbier MD Msc
  • Wesley de Jong MD
  • Thomas Langerak MD
  • Laura Doornekamp MD
  • Dr. Kirsten Adriani MD PhD

Trevi studies

  • Prof. Eric C.M. van Gorp
  • Lennert van den Dries MD
  • Rob Gruters
  • Marlies Wagener
  • Stefanie van Opstal

COVA study

  • Prof. Eric C.M. van Gorp
  • Dr. M. Goeijenbier MD Phd Msc
  • W. de Jong MD
  • L. Doornekamp MD
  • R. Gruters

Hi Temp study

  • Prof. Eric C.M. van Gorp
  • Dr. Maarten Limper MD PhD
  • Yuri van der Does MD
  • Prof. Peter Patka
  • Dr. Pleunie Rood