Grants/Scholarships

• WKZ Research Fund, (2-year funding) 2023
  • Project: Boosting pediatric immunity:
    building a strong relationship between young T and B cells, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Infection & Immunity Grant Boost. 2021
  • Project: To unravel the role of innate signals in the (pre-)differentiation and function of naive T cells. UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Marie Curie Individual Global Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-GF-2017), 3-year fellowship. 2018
  • Project: Regulation of B-cell Epitope migration and Autoimmunity by T follicular helper cells (Beat)  Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW, Ter Meulen), 5-month work visit scholarship. 2017
  • Project: The mechanistic role of complement in the initiation of adaptive immune responses towards pneumococcus. Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• Dutch Society of Immunology (NVvI), 2-month work visit scholarship, 2012
  • Project: Natural development of autoantibody repertoire. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
• Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW, Ter Meulen), 2-month work visit scholarship, 2012
  • Project: Natural development of autoantibody repertoire. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
• Fulbright Scholarship, 2007
  • Project: Immune modulatory mechanisms in oral tolerance induction in rheumatoid arthritis via epitope specific therapy. University of California, San Diego (UCSD), CA, USA & University of Arizona (UofA), Tucson, AZ, USA
• Prince Bernhard Culture Foundation (From the Carolus Magnus Foundation) scholarship, 2007
  • Project: Immune modulatory mechanisms in oral tolerance induction in rheumatoid arthritis via epitope specific therapy. University of California, San Diego (UCSD), CA, USA & University of Arizona (UofA), Tucson, AZ, USA