Leo Koenderman

Full Professor

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Contact

lkoender@umcutrecht.nl

Pure profile

Research groups

Phagocytes in health and inflammation

Research aim

Understand human phagocyte dynamics and function from their birth to their death in health and inflammation. These insights can be used to predict the status of a disease and susceptibility to infectious and immune mediated diseases.

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Recent publications

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Glucocorticoid-driven gene expression in circulating monocytes and neutrophils in health and severe inflammation Leo Koenderman, Arthur Molendijk
Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 2026, vol. 118

Letter to the editor – Early post lung transplant neutrophil dynamics within 72 h Berber Zweers, Sue Braithwaite, Linda de Heer, Leo Koenderman, Nienke Vrisekoop, Bart Luijk
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2026, vol. 45, p.1518-1519

Increased Bacterial Load per Neutrophil Reduces Intracellular Killing Capacity Louise V Duebel, Simon O Dekker, Suzanne H Bongers, Corneli van Aalst, Eva Mulder, Falco Hietbrink, Leo Koenderman, Nienke Vrisekoop
Journal of Innate Immunity, 2026, vol. 18, p.156-168

Exercise affects systemic basophil responses in humans T. C. Pelgrim, B. N. Jukema, L. Koopmans, C. C.W.G. Bongers, M. T.E. Hopman, E. F. Knol, N. Vrisekoop, L. Koenderman
Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry, 2026, vol. 110, p.92-101

Polystyrene microplastics cross the murine intestine and induce inflammatory cell death after phagocytosis by human monocytes and neutrophils Giulio Giustarini, Tim L.P. Skrabanja, Annemijne E.T. van den Berg, Selma van Staveren, Tom Vos, Zhi Hui Zhou, Thomas Klaessens, Eva Mulder, Joëlle Klazen, Joost Smit, Raymond Pieters, Leo Koenderman, Nienke Vrisekoop
iScience, 2025, vol. 28

Defining the early systemic neutrophil signature after severe trauma Christian Thomas Hübner, Emma de Fraiture, Roman Pfeifer, Nathalie Piaz, Felix Karl-Ludwig Klingebiel, Yannik Kalbas, Paolo Cinelli, Leo Koenderman, Falco Hietbrink, Hans-Christoph Pape, Michel Paul Johan Teuben
European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society, 2025, vol. 51

External positions

speaker scientific workshops - Pathogenesis of inflammatory pulmonary diseases - GlaxoSmithKline

Consultant - strategy immunomonitoring - Flowview diagnostics

Consultant - point-of-care immunomonitoring program - Beckman Coulter