Assistant Professor - medical
Strategic program(s):
2020: Jeffrey Modell Foundation C.H.I.L.D.R.E.N! Research Program grant
2019: Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Foundation
2019: Foundation for rare diseases grant – The role of intestinal bacteria in immunoglobulin A deficiency
2018: De rol van darmbacteriën in immuunglobuline A deficiëntie in jonge kinderen
2018: Kiddy Goodpills – No child deserves bad medicine – grant for project ‘Antibiotic prophylaxis in children with recurrent respiratory tract infections: microbiome and host immunology
2018: Seqirus-ESPID fellowship for project ‘Mucosal IgA profiling in paediatric influenza’
2018: Childhealth Boost grant
2017: Research grant ‘Gijsbersstichting’ for research on the use of e-health to monitor clinical symptoms in children with antibody deficiencies.
2016: ESPID travel grant. Travel grant for ESPID Meeting in Brighton, UK.
2016: ESPID small grant for pilot study 'Respiratory viruses in children with recurrent respiratory tract infections'.
2015: Fast track scholarship for MSc Epidemiology Postgraduate Online.
2015: Christine Bader Foundation grant for research on microbiome studies in IgA deficient children.
2015: Dutch Society of Paediatrics (NVK) Section Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunity Grant for research on microbiome studies in IgA deficient children.
2015: Wilhelmina Children's Hospital Research fund grant for study 'Respiratory and intestinal microbiome in IgA deficient children'
2015: Fellowship clinical research talent UMC Utrecht for study 'Respiratory and intestinal microbiome in IgA deficient children'
2015: Dutch Society of Medical Microbiology (NVMM) and Royal Dutch Society of Microbiology (KNVM) Westerdijk Award.
2015: ESPID prize for best presentation at the Walter Marget clinically oriented educational workshop.
2014: Grant of the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation for thesis on tuberculosis in paediatric risk groups
2014: ESPID small grant for pilot study 'Respiratory microbiome in indigenous Venezuelan'.
2013: N4i international travel grant. Travel grant for Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in France.
2013: First price NVK (Dutch Society of Paediatrics) Young Investigators Award.
2013: 'Rapporteurs' award for reviewed abstract exemplifying innovation, new science or implementation at the Conference International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
2012: ISPPD travel grant. Travel grant for ISPPD-8 Symposium in Brazil.
2009: Grant Verenigde Spaarbanken (VSB) Fonds. Grant for the elaboration of a research project on paediatric tuberculosis in Warao Amerindians in Venezuela.
2008: ‘Budget Internationalisering’ Radboud University Nijmegen. Travel grant for Conference International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in France.
2002: Van Melsen Young Scientists Award, Radboud University Nijmegen, for research project ‘Vitamin C as a preventive treatment against cystitis’