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Joost Frenkel

Full Professor

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Biography

Joost Frenkel is a professor of pediatrics with a focus on family and patient centered education

He is a distinguished medical teacher with ample experience in development and provision of education to medical students residents and faculty.

He is an experienced pediatrician with a profound interest and expertise in autoinflammatory diseases.

These are disorders in which the innate inflammatory response runs out of control.

For these rare patients Frenkel leads an (inter)national clinical, genetic and research reference center.

Research has focused on the hyper IgD periodic fever syndrome due to mevalonate kinase deficiency.

International collaboration includes the Eurofever network and the international association for autoinflammatory diseases, as well as bilateral collaboration with the NIH.

Recent publications

NK cell dysfunction and interferon-γ production underlie autoinflammation in mevalonate kinase deficiency Marcia A. Munoz, Iona S. Schuster, James Cremasco, Etienne N. Masle-Farquhar, Oliver P. Skinner, Zoe J. Vandeleur, Maté Biro, Daryan Kempe, William D. Renton, Sam Mehr, Charlotte Abell-King, Szun Szun Tay, Ryan C. Chai, Samar Ojaimi, John J. Zaunders, Geetha Rao, Ariel Castro-Martinez, Lisette van de Corput, Andrew N. McCorkindale, Leonard D. Goldstein, Xiaohong Li, Flore Wouters, Daniel L. Kastner, Ignatius Chua, Nicole L. Fewings, Fiona C. McKay, Catharina M. Mulders-Manders, Robert A. Brink, Stuart G. Tangye, Ivona Aksentijevich, Cindy S. Ma, Jeroen van der Hilst, Joost Frenkel, Mariapia A. Degli-Esposti, Michael J. Rogers
Immunity, 2026, vol. 59, p.1726-1742.e8
Pyrin Inflammasome Activation Triggers an IL-18-Driven IFNγ Response in Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency Niels S van Heusden, Isa Cuijpers, Nils Meijer, Daan Pieren, Angela Markovska, Cem Gabay, Charlotte Girard, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Bas Vastert, Dörte Hamann, Judith Jans, Erika Van Nieuwenhove, Joost Frenkel, Marianne Boes
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2026, vol. 158, p.253-268
Mevalonate kinase deficiency Lilla Lengvári, Kata Takács, Anna Lengyel, Annamária Pálinkás, Carine Helena Wouters, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner, Jerold Jeyaratnam, Jordi Anton, Helen Jane Lachmann, Marco Gattorno, Michael Hofer, Nataša Toplak, Peter Weiser, Tilmann Kallinich, Seza Ozen, Véronique Hentgen, Yosef Uziel, Zsuzsanna Horváth, Márton Szabados, Paul Brogan, Tamás Constantin, Joost Frenkel
Frontiers in Immunology, 2024, vol. 15
Monitoring of Adverse Events and Safety in Autoinflammatory Diseases Yulia Vyzhga, Joost Frenkel, Antonella Insalaco, Jordi Anton, Isabelle Koné-Paut, G. Elizabeth Legger, Giovanna Fabio, Marco Cattalini, Sylvia Kamphuis, Eric Hachulla, Karoline Krause, Zelal Ekinci, Judith Sanchez-Manubens, J. Merlijn Van den Berg, Cristina Herrera Mora, Danielle Brinkman, Eztizen Labrador, Judith Potjewijd, Luca Carlini, Marta Bustaffa, Roberta Caorsi, Nicolino Ruperto, Marco Gattorno
Journal of Clinical Immunology, 2024, vol. 44, p.1-12
Unravelling the clinical heterogeneity of undefined recurrent fever over time in the European registries on Autoinflammation Y. Vyzhga, H. Wittkowski, V. Hentgen, S. Georgin-Lavialle, A. Theodoropoulou, S. Fuehner, M. Jesenak, J. Frenkel, E. Papadopoulou-Alataki, Jordi Anton, A. Nunzia Olivieri, J. Brunner, J. Sanchez, I. Koné-Paut, S. Fingerhutova, P. Pillet, U. Meinzer, R. Khubchandani, A. Jansson, J. P. Haas, R. Berendes, T. Kallinich, G. Horneff, E. Lilienthal, R. Papa, D. Foell, E. Lainka, R. Caorsi, M. Gattorno, M. Hofer
Pediatric Rheumatology, 2024, vol. 22, p.1-13
Living on Site While Renovating; Flexible Instructional Design of Post-Graduate Medical Training Peter K H Deschamps, Geke M J Beugels, J Dudink, Joost Frenkel, Marije P Hennus, Marijke B Hofstra, Alexa X Rutten, Marieke Van der Schaaf
Perspectives on medical education, 2024, vol. 13, p.300-306