About
Introduction
Field(s) of expertise
- Pregnancy
- Epidemiology.
- Nutrition.
- Socio-economic health differences.
- Public health.
- Growth.
- Overweight and obesity.
- Cardiovascular risk.
Education and career
Education
MSc Nutrition and Health, specialization Epidemiology and Public Health, Wageningen University.
MSc Health Sciences, specialization Public Health, NIHES.
Career
PhD thesis on social and ethnic inequalities in childhood overweight, department of Public Health/Generation R, Erasmus MC.
Assistant Professor in Public Health Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht.
Senior researcher in periconception epidemiology at Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC.
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.