Dr. Yvonne Vercoulen

Yvonne Vercoulen is assistant professor at the Center for Molecular Medicine in the University Medical Center Utrecht. Yvonne is intrigued by the immune system and completed her PhD in Immunology at Utrecht University. She won a Marie-Curie Fellowship to expand her horizon and knowledge on signal transduction in immune cells at UC San Francisco. Yvonne’s team is studying how immune cells can derail and promote diseases such as autoimmunity and cancer.

How can our immune system turn on us?

Yvonne Vercoulen has been a member of the Utrecht Young Academy, a bridge between young and talented researchers, since 2020.