About
Introduction
Eveline Molendijk is a junior researcher working at the department of General Practice at the Erasmus MC. She finished her master degree in Medicine at the University of Leiden in 2017.
For two years, she has been working as a junior doctor at the department of Internal Medicine at the Alrijne hospital in Leiderdorp.
Her current research is focused on the influence of menopause on the development of osteoarthritis.
Recent Findings
Previous studies in the lab have shown that autologous dendritic cells pulsed with allogenic tumor cell lysate was able to induce peripheral T cell activation and tumor-reactive T cell responses in patients with mesothelioma and pancreatic cancer. Current research focuses on how to initiate an effective immune response in the tumor as well as the tumor-draining lymph node using dendritic cell vaccination. Furthermore, we are studying novel approaches for (personalized) vaccination. In addition, we have identified T cell characteristics that underlie clinical efficacy of immune check inhibitors or chemotherapeutic agents in mesothelioma. The selected publications below give an impression of our work.
