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Conference committee

  • Joost Snijder (chair)

    Assistant Prof. Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics, Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science
  • His research focuses on virus–host interactions to understand how antibodies neutralize infection and the dual role of antigen glycosylation in this process.

  • Janine T.A.T. Stienstra

    PhD candidate Infection Biology, Department Biomolecular Health Sciences (BHS), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
  • Research project investigating extracellular vesicles in the context of picornavirus infections and related immune system responses.

  • Lennie Derde

    Intensivist-Infectiologist, Assistant Professor, Department of Intensive Care Medicine & Julius Center, Epidemiology, UMC Utrecht
  • Her research focusses on recognition and treatment of severe infections and sepsis, and how we can innovate clinical trials to optimize the treatment of critically ill patients.

  • Maja Bulatovic-Calasan

    internist allergist/immunologist and clinical pharmacologist, Assistant Professor, UMC Utrecht
  • Her research focuses on personalised pharmaceutic care in immune-mediated inflammatory and allergic diseases.

  • Zsolt Sebestyen

    Associate Professor, Center for Translational Immunology, UMC Utrecht
  • His research focuses on harnessing γδ T cells and engineered immune receptors to recognize and eliminate tumor cells, independent of conventional antigen presentation.

  • Saskia Vijver

    PhD candidate, Center for Translational Immunology, Inhibitory receptor lab, UMC Utrecht
  • Her research focuses on inhibitory receptors on myeloid cells in cancer.

  • Jorik van Rijn

    Postdoc Immunotherapy, Nierkens lab, Princess Maxima Center
  • His research focusses on developing a new therapy for these high-risk T-ALL patients based on the recently successful Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell technology.

  • Emma Martinez Sanchez

    Triple I Community & CGT Program Manager, Department Hematology, UMC Utrecht

Our community

The Triple I community represents and connects all infection biology and immunology life sciences research at the Utrecht University campus. Spanning three faculties, our world-leading research is eminently positioned to feed into the university Life Sciences research in collaboration with the other five thematic communities.

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