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• Symposium: A Dutch Perspective on Mycobacterial Infections News - 2 April 2025

  On March 24, 2025, World TB Day, we (Annemarie Meijer (IBL), Matthias Barz (LACDR), and Simone Joosten (LUMC) hosted the symposium „A Dutch Perspective on Mycobacterial Infections“, which brought together the Dutch scientific community working on mycobacterial infections.

• Rethinking antibiotic therapy of urinary tract infections News - 31 January 2024

  Suruchi Nepal, postdoc in the group of Coen van Hasselt at LACDR, was awarded an NWO XS project which aims to study the response to antibiotic treatment during a urinary tract infection (UTI). This knowledge will be used to determine how treatments of UTIs with antibiotics can be further improved.

• New insights into mycobacterial infections with NWO grant News - 28 July 2022

  Why are mycobacteria such successful pathogens? And are there defence mechanisms in the body that help reduce an infection? To find out, Annemarie Meijer has been awarded the NWO Open Competition ENW-XL grant. She will not explore this quest alone. Five other leading Dutch research groups are participating…

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  Bart Roep Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  b.o.roep@lumc.nl | 071 5263869

• euros grant for smart antibiotic combinations – tackling resistant infections and antimicrobial resistance News - 21 November 2024

  Optimised antibiotic combinations can combat bacteria more effectively while also slowing the development of resistance. Scientists from five European countries are joining forces to identify such combinations and provide tools for others to do the same. The project is led by Professor Coen van Hasselt…

• LACDR research project to develop novel biomarkers for bacterial infections News - 15 December 2016

  As part of the ZonMW Antibiotics resistance funding program, the LACDR cluster Systems Pharmacology was awarded €455.255 for a research project to develop novel clinical biomarkers for bacterial infections.

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  Cornelis Hokke Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  c.h.hokke@lumc.nl | 071 5265065

• Protecting the tiniest lives: how biological signals can improve care for premature babies News - 10 March 2026

  When a baby is born too soon, every minute counts – and so does every decision. To reduce uncertainty in those critical moments, biopharmaceutical scientist Manchu Umarani Thangavelu dedicated her PhD to identifying molecular markers of preterm birth and neonatal infection.

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  Irene Pascual Garcia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  i.pascual.garcia@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maria Yazdanbakhsh Afdelingshoofd afdeling parasitologie LUMC

  Faculty of Medicine

  m.yazdanbakhsh@lumc.nl | 071 5265067

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  Mark van Buchem Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  m.a.van_buchem@lumc.nl | 071 5264376

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  Cornelis van Kooten Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  c.van_kooten@lumc.nl | 071 5262148

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  Frank Baas Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  f.baas@lumc.nl |

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  Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  l.f.de_geus-oei@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

• Illuminating Host Defence against Mycobacterial Infection: Interactions with Autophagy and LC3-Associated Phagocytosis Event - 3 February 2026

  PhD defence

• Turning the tables on tuberculosis: boosting our own immune forces News - 2 February 2026

  Tuberculosis bacteria survive by hiding in our immune cells. In her PhD research, biologist Salomé Muñoz Sánchez explores how boosting the body’s own defenses might outsmart this deadly pathogen. Her work reveals two key proteins that help immune cells destroy the bacteria.

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  Jaap van Dissel Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  j.t.van_dissel@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Noortje Dannenberg PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  n.dannenberg@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275075

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  Eric Snijder Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  e.j.snijder@lumc.nl | 071 5261657

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  Alexander Gorbalenya Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  a.e.gorbalenya@lumc.nl | 071 5263931

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  Edmond Rings Professor@Pediatrics

  Faculty of Medicine

  e.h.h.m.rings@lumc.nl | 071 5262824

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  Leo Visser Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  l.g.visser@lumc.nl | 071 5266534

• Biological agents Working with hazardous substances

  Biological agents are micro-organisms such as bacteria, parasites, moulds, viruses and their waste products. This category also includes genetically modified variants (GMOs). These agents may form a risk for your health, which is why we apply a number of legal and other guidelines to prevent people…

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  Gert Jan Lammers Professor by special appointment

  Faculty of Medicine

  g.j.lammers@lumc.nl | 071 5262139

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  Joan Hendrik Veelken Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  j.h.veelken@lumc.nl | 071 5262267

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  Annemieke Geluk Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  a.geluk@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Marlies Reinders Dean / Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  m.e.j.reinders@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Thorbald van Hall Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  t.van_hall@lumc.nl | 071 5266945

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  Jannie Keyser-Borst Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  j.g.borst@lumc.nl |

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  Paul Parren Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  p.w.h.i.parren@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Karin de Visser Professor by special appointment

  Faculty of Medicine

  k.e.de_visser@lumc.nl |

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  Louis Kroes Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  a.c.m.kroes@lumc.nl | 31654635230

• Got a cold or the flu? Here’s the guidelines Announcement - 28 January 2025

  Human resources

• Outbreak of an infectious disease? Mathematics helps in making quick, informed decisions News - 15 October 2024

  A job thanks to COVID—something not many people can claim. But PhD candidate Vera Arntzen can. Over the past four years, she has mapped two crucial characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Thanks to her research, experts can now make well-informed decisions on matters like quarantine duration, which…

• A safe work environment

  Regardless of whether you work at a desk or in a lab, all workplaces have their risks. As your employer, the University aims to create a healthy workplace and to limit possible health risks. Here you will find the main risks and measures that we take to reduce them.

• A safe workplace A safe work environment

  Regardless of whether you work at a desk or in a lab, all workplaces have their risks. As your employer, the University aims to create a healthy workplace and to limit possible health risks. Here you will find the main risks and measures that we take to reduce them.

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• ‘Alleen zo kunnen we voorbereid zijn op zowel bekende als nieuwe infectieziekten’ News - 16 April 2026

  Goede en actuele data zijn cruciaal om infectieziekten effectief te bestrijden en de volksgezondheid te beschermen. Bijzonder hoogleraar Susan van den Hof en haar team zetten zich in voor betere data-methoden, zodat infectieziekten vroeg worden opgespoord en doeltreffend worden aangepakt.

• Grant Elise Mathilde Fund & LUF: Using virus to kill bacteria: design of innovative phage-antibiotic combination treatments to combat antimicrobial News - 5 July 2023

  Phage therapy is a novel yet unmatured therapeutic approach in the face of the crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Dr. Tingjie Guo received a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund and the LUF to develop innovative phage-antibiotic combination treatment strategy for combating AMR.

• AMPK activation as host-directed therapy to improve tuberculosis treatment: Computational characterization and prediction of intracellular pharmacology News - 3 July 2025

  Rob van Wijk (LACDR, Leiden University) and Robin van den Biggelaar (LUCID, LUMC) have been awarded a €10,000 euro KIEM grant from Leiden University to start an interdisciplinary collaboration to investigate the potential of AMPK activation as an adjunctive therapy to enhance tuberculosis treatment.

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  Koos van der Hoeven Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  j.j.m.van.der.hoeven@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Jaap Jan Zwaginga Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  j.j.zwaginga@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Frits Koning Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  f.koning@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Thomas Ottenhoff Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  t.h.m.ottenhoff@lumc.nl |

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  Fijs van Leeuwen Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  f.w.b.van_leeuwen@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Jan van Lith Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  j.m.m.van_lith@lumc.nl | 071 5262896

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  Willem Fibbe Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  w.e.fibbe@lumc.nl | 071 5262271

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  Bart van Hoek Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  b.van_hoek@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Annette van der Helm-van Mil Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  a.h.m.van_der_helm@lumc.nl | 071 5261290

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  Amir Zadpoor Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  a.a.zadpoor@tudelft.nl | 071 5269111