Full Professor of Immunopharmacology at Utrecht University
Head of the Division Pharmacology at the Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chief Scientific Advisor Danone/Nutricia Research
Chair “Future Food Utrecht” research community
Published over 850 peer reviewed papers in the field of “immunomodulation”
Editorial board member for Elsevier “Pharma Nutrition”
co-edited “Pharma-Nutrition, An Overview” (2014-Volume 12 of Springer Series AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences), examining the effects of natural products and functional/medical foods (nutritional programming) on disease management. He has contributed to various grants, a.o. NWO, EU, Bill Gates, NIH, and recently the STW Nutrall Grant, nutrition-based approach to support antigen-specific oral immunotherapy for food allergy and the RAAK-PRO DiAgRaMs Grant, validate exercise as challenge model to test health products on intestinal condition and immune system