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Kitty Verhoeckx

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Kitty Verhoeckx received her Bachelor’s degree in Analytical Chemistry in 1992. In 1991 she started her career at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, where she had various research positions and was involved in various research topics (pesticides, hormones and animal pharmaceuticals, analytics (targeted and untargeted proteomics, metabolomics), systems biology, bioactive lipids etc.

In November 2005 she gained her PhD degree at the University of Leiden on the topic: ”Systems biology based studies on anti-inflammatory compounds”.

Since January 2011, Kitty Verhoeckx is involved in food allergy projects (predicting allergenicity of novel proteins for instance insects, effect of protein digestion, transport and processing on allergenicity and biomarkers for food allergy to improve diagnosis). She was a management committee member of the COST Action INFOGEST (food digestion), management committee member of COMFA, a European network for the development of a core outcome set for measuring the effectiveness of immunotherapy...

Research groups

Acute inflammation - Food allergy

Research aim

We aim to improve allergy diagnosis and increase quality of life to reduce healthcare costs by developing predictive diagnostic tools, get insight into food allergy mechanisms and increase understanding and awareness of allergic risks of (new) foods.

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Recent publications

Co-sensitization between legumes is frequently seen, but variable and not always clinically relevant Mark Smits, Kitty Verhoeckx, André Knulst, Paco Welsing, Aard de Jong, Marco Gaspari, Anna Ehlers, Paulien Verhoeff, Geert Houben, Thuy My Le
Frontiers in allergy, 2023, vol. 4
EAACI Molecular Allergology User's Guide 2.0 Stephanie Dramburg, Christiane Hilger, Alexandra F Santos, Leticia de Las Vecillas, Rob C Aalberse, Nathalie Acevedo, Lorenz Aglas, Friedrich Altmann, Karla L Arruda, Riccardo Asero, Barbara Ballmer-Weber, Domingo Barber, Kirsten Beyer, Tilo Biedermann, Maria Beatrice Bilo, Simon Blank, Philipp P Bosshard, Heimo Breiteneder, Helen A Brough, Merima Bublin, Dianne...
Are Physicochemical Properties Shaping the Allergenic Potency of Animal Allergens? Joana Costa, Caterina Villa, Kitty Verhoeckx, Tanja Cirkovic-Velickovic, Denise Schrama, Paola Roncada, Pedro M. Rodrigues, Cristian Piras, Laura Martín-Pedraza, Linda Monaci, Elena Molina, Gabriel Mazzucchelli, Isabel Mafra, Roberta Lupi, Daniel Lozano-Ojalvo, Colette Larré, Julia Klueber, Eva Gelencser, Cristina Bueno-Diaz, Araceli Diaz-Perales, Sara Benedé, Simona Lucia Bavaro, Annette Kuehn, Karin...
Poor understanding of allergen labelling by allergic and non-allergic consumers Bregje C. Holleman, Harmieke van Os-Medendorp, Huub van den Bergh, Liselotte M. van Dijk, Yvette F.M. Linders, W. Marty Blom, Kitty C.M. Verhoeckx, Anouska Michelsen-Huisman, Geert F. Houben, André C. Knulst, Leo R. Lentz
Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 2021, vol. 51, p.1374-1382
Ranking of 10 legumes according to the prevalence of sensitization as a parameter to characterize allergenic proteins Mark Smits, Kitty Verhoeckx, André Knulst, Paco Welsing, Aard de Jong, Geert Houben, Thuy My Le
Toxicology Reports, 2021, vol. 8, p.767-773
Digestion and Transport across the Intestinal Epithelium Affects the Allergenicity of Ara h 1 and 3 but Not of Ara h 2 and 6 Mark Smits, Irene Nooijen, Frank Redegeld, Aard de Jong, Thuy-My Le, André Knulst, Geert Houben, Kitty Verhoeckx
Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, 2021, vol. 65, p.1-10