Project 1: Neuron-Glia

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.

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Wiep Scheper


Associate professor at VU/Amsterdam UMC. Her expertise lies in proteostatic stress responses in AD. In MODEM, she leads Pillar 1 together with Bart Eggen.

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Daniel van den Hove


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

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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.

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Project 2: PSYNA

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.

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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.

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Helmut Kessels 


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

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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.

Project 3: Brain Barriers

Elga de Vries, AMC


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.

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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.

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Erik Bakker, AUMC 


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.

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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 Boellard, AUMC


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.

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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"

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Walter Backes


Elsmarieke van de Giessen


Marcel Verbeek


Jurgen Claassen


Marieke Wermer


Project 4: Comics

Betty Tijms

Pieter Jelle Visser



Guus Smit

Harro Seelaar


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