MODEM

Elly Hol

Professor in glia biology of brain diseases at dept. Translational Neuroscience at UMC Utrecht. Her work is translational and includes studies in glia in human brain tissues, cells models, and animal models.

Wiep Scheper

Associate professor at VU/Amsterdam UMC. Her expertise lies in proteostatic stress responses in AD. In MODEM, she will manage Pillar 1 together with Elly Hol.

Bart Eggen

Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at UMC Groningen, where he focuses on the role of glia in CNS developmnet, functioning, and neuroinflammation in AD, FTD and MS.

Daniel van den Hove

Professor of Neuroepigenetics at Maastricht University. His work focuses on stress, epigenetic processes, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Rik van der Kant

Assistant professor at VU/Amsterdam UMC. His researcjh focuses on translational research using iPSC models in AD, specifically on cholesterol metabolism in the brain.

Willianne Vonk

Senior postdoc & Head of the research team Genome Instability, Premature Ageing & Neurodegeneration. She focuses on how transcriptional stress impacts the proteome integrite of distinct cell types of the brain in progressive neurodegeneration.

Paul Lucassen

Professor at the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences (SILS), University of Amsterdam. Expertise in brain plasticity, early-life stress, neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases

Ronald van Kesteren

Professor at VU Amsterdam, where his work focuses on Dementia Science. He aims to understand molecular, cellular and network adaptations in AD.

Helmut Kessels

Professor at SILS, University of Amsterdam. Specializes in synaptic plasticity and synaptic excitability.

Harm Krugers

Associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, with an expertise in the field on (early-life) stress and how that alters brain and behaviour.

Aniko Korosi

Associate professor at University of Amsterdam, with a specialization in the programming of mental and metabolic health by early-life stress, with a focus on nutriiton and inflammation.

Priyanka Rao Ruiz

Assistant professor at the VU Amsterdam. She leads the Molecular Engram research team at the VU, where she aims to identify the bio-molecular landscape of memory formation, integration and stability

Elga de Vries

Professor at the dept. of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology at Amsterdam UMC. She focuses on the cross talk of the immune system and the brain, specifically the role of the brain vasculature in neurological diseases.

Thijs van Osch (LUMC)

Professor Experimental Cerebrovascular Imaging bij C.J. Gorter MRI Centrum, Radiologie, LUMC. Expertise in MRI physics; focus on sequence development for hemodynamic MRI and brain clearance. Pijlertrekker van Brain Barriers (Pijler 3). Over Thijs: houdt van hardlopen

Erik Bakker (Amsterdam UMC)

Assistant Professor, department of Biomedical Engineering & Physics, Amsterdam UMC (locatie AMC)
Expertise: vasculaire fysiologie
in MODEM: rol bestuderen van perivasculaire ruimtes & brain clearance

Louise van der Weerd (LUMC)

Associate Professor, Pre-clinical imaging / neurovascular diseases. Expertise in beelvorming van neurovasculaire dysfunctie in diermodellen, translationele biomarkers van ziekten.

Jaco Zwanenburg (LUMC)

Associate Professor of Advanced Cerebrovascular MRI, Utrecht Center for Image Science. Expertise in MR fysica en geavanceerde 'highfield' MRI methoden voor cerebrovasculaire functies. Interesse in microvasculaire pulsen en breinweefself deformatie in brain clearance.
Over Jaco: vader van 4 kinderen en houdt van houthakken in zijn vrije tijd.

Ronald Boellaard (Amsterdam UMC)

Professor in fysica en biologie en hoofd van Imaging Methodology, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, VUmc. Expertise in quantitatieve analyse in PET studies. Binnen MODEM is Ronald de coördinator van de PET studies en analyses ervan

Natalia Petridou (UMCU)

Associate professor bij Radiologie/Imaging afdeling bij UMC Utrecht. Met een achtergrond in biomedical engineering en neurowetenschappen heeft zij een expertise gebouwd binnen MRI en fMRI, neuroimaging, en neurovasculaire koppeling. In MODEM: supervisie van project over de dysfunctie van corticale bloedvaten en brain clearance in dementie.
"Reality is the playground of the unimaginative"

Walter Backes

Elsmarieke van de Giessen

Marcel Verbeek

Jurgen Claassen

Marieke Wermer

Pieter Jelle Visser

Betty Tijms

Guus Smit

Harro Seelaar

Jeroen van Rooij

Mohsen Ghanbari (Erasmus MC)

MD en moleculair epidemioloog, Associate Professor bij department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC (Rotterdam). Expertise: identificatie van genetische bepalende factoren en nieuwe biomarkers van complexe aging-ziekten, zoals AD. In MODEM: cross-omics analyses uitvoeren om nieuwe pathologische verbanden te leggen binnen dementie.

Guus Smit

Lotte Smit (VU)

Projectcoördinator van MODEM, dep. Molecular & Cellular Neurobiology, VU Amsterdam. She has an expertise in Molecular Neuroscience and Nutrition, with a specific interest in the gut-brain axis. She aims to brigde the gap between science and the public, and lives by the phrase "to play is the highest form of research".

Karin Jongsma (Julius Centrum)

Associate Professor in Bioethics, Ethics of biotechnologies. In MODEM, she is the ethical advisor, where her supervision is based on ethical analyses and technical developments. Her mission is to make academia more playful.

Jurjen Broeke