Research groups

Rheumatology & clinical immunology

Research aim

To improve clinical practice by optimizing diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of rheumatic and immune-mediated and immune-deficient inflammatory diseases

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Recent publications

Author Correction: Regulatory T cells in psoriatic arthritis: an IL-17A-producing, Foxp3intCD161 + RORγt + ICOS + phenotype, that associates with the presence of ADAMTSL5 autoantibodies Juliëtte N. Pouw, Michel A.M. Olde Nordkamp, Tessa van Kempen, Arno N. Concepcion, Jacob M. van Laar, Femke van Wijk, Julia Spierings, Emmerik F.A. Leijten, Marianne Boes
Scientific Reports, 2023, vol. 13, p.1-1
Association of endothelial to mesenchymal transition and cellular senescence with fibrosis in skin biopsies of systemic sclerosis patients Yu Hsiang Chiu, Julia Spierings, Jacob M. van Laar, Jeska K. de Vries-Bouwstra, Marijke van Dijk, Roel Goldschmeding
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 2023, vol. 41, p.1612-1617
Prognostication of progressive pulmonary fibrosis in connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases Yu Hsiang Chiu, Maaike F.M. Koops, Mareye Voortman, H. Wouter van Es, Lucianne C.M. Langezaal, Paco M.J. Welsing, Anna Jamnitski, Anne E. Wind, Jacob M. van Laar, Jan C. Grutters, Julia Spierings
Frontiers in medicine, 2023, vol. 10
Anti-thymocyte globulin exposure in patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis undergoing autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation Yu Hsiang Chiu, Anouk Drijver, Rick Admiraal, Anna van Rhenen, Stefan Nierkens, Jacob M. van Laar, Julia Spierings
Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders, 2023, vol. 8, p.241-246
Does the impact of COVID-19 on patients with systemic sclerosis change over time? Elisabeth Deibel, Patricia E Carreira, Madelon Vonk, Nicoletta Del Papa, Radim Bečvář, Alfredo Guillén-Del-Castillo, Corrado Campochiaro, Hadi Poormoghim, Sophie Liem, Maria-Grazia Lazzaroni, Alessandro Giollo, Arsène Mekinian, Jeska de Vries-Bouwstra, Maria De Santis, Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Carina Mihai, Giacomo De Luca, Sergey Moiseev, Elisabetta Zanatta, Rosario Foti, Simona Rednic, Christopher Denton, Maurizio Cutolo, Laura Belloli, Paolo Airo, Liudmila Garzanova, Gianluca Moroncini, Murat İnanç, Stylianos Panopoulos, Jose-Luis Tandaipan, Emmanuel Chatelus, Edoardo Rosato, Masataka Kuwana, Sule Yavuz, Juan J Alegre-Sancho, Vanessa Smith, Gabriella Szűcs, Joerg Henes, Ignasi Rodríguez-Pintó, Fabiola Atzeni, Julia Spierings, Marie-Elise Truchetet, Marcin Milchert, Daniel Brito de Araujo, Gabriela Riemekasten, Vera Bernardino, Thierry Martin, Francesco Del Galdo, Alessandra Vacca, Fabian Mendoza, Øyvind Midtvedt, Giuseppe Murdaca, Tânia Santiago, Veronica Codullo, Fabio Cacciapaglia, Ulrich Walker, Cathrine Brunborg, Francesca Tirelli, Yannick Allanore, Daniel E Furst, Marco Matucci, Armando Gabrielli, Oliver Distler, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold
Arthritis care and research, 2023, vol. 76, p.88-97
Involvement of the systemic microcirculation in pediatric uveitis Carlyn V. Kouwenberg, Julia Spierings, Evianne L. de Groot, Joke H. de Boer, Viera Kalinina Ayuso
Pediatric rheumatology online journal, 2023, vol. 21, p.1-9

Fellowships & Awards

2021: NVLE Award

2021: SCTC visiting fellowship award

2020: Catharine van Tussenbroek Grant