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dr. Renate van der Molen
About Renate van der Molen
Renate van der Molen, is Medical Immunologist and staff member at the Department of Laboratory Medicine. Her research is focused on immune regulation during pregnancy. read moreAbout Renate van der Molen
Renate van der Molen, is Medical Immunologist and staff member at the Department of Laboratory Medicine. Her research is focused on immune regulation during pregnancy. She is in particular interested in factors that could disturb the well balanced immunological environment in the uterus and placenta, such as microbiome changes and immunosuppressive drugs and the (immunological) consequences for the offspring. She is chair and founder member of the Reproductive Immunology Network Netherlands (RINet). As Medical Immunologist, Renate is responsible for laboratory diagnostics of immunological disorders, i.e. auto-immune diseases and allergy. She is active member of the European Autoimmunity Standardisation Initiative (EASI) and the ARCH antiphospholipid working group.
Position(s)
- laboratoriumspecialist
Personal prizes & awards
- EU Horizon 2020 Grant project PREMSTEM
- NWO-TTW grant 2018 nutrition and immune fitness, EARLYFIT study (co)
- Nutricia Research Foundation grant for the project “Microbiota during pregnancy, an affair to remember” 2014
Personal prizes & awards
- EU Horizon 2020 Grant project PREMSTEM
- NWO-TTW grant 2018 nutrition and immune fitness, EARLYFIT study (co)
- Nutricia Research Foundation grant for the project “Microbiota during pregnancy, an affair to remember” 2014
- Grant from Calibration 2000 (SKML) “Determination of normal complement levels in healthy Dutch children”
Additional Functions
- Board and founder member of the RINet Reproductive Immunology Network Netherlands (2016-present)
- Board member of the ARCH working group on antiphospholipid syndrome (2018-present)
- Board member Dutch EASI (European Autoimmunity Standardisation Initiative) workgroup (2016-present)
Additional Functions
- Board and founder member of the RINet Reproductive Immunology Network Netherlands (2016-present)
- Board member of the ARCH working group on antiphospholipid syndrome (2018-present)
- Board member Dutch EASI (European Autoimmunity Standardisation Initiative) workgroup (2016-present)
- Board member X2 women network Radboudumc (2012-present)
- Member of the “kerngroep” Dutch Working Group Primary Immunodeficiencies (2009-present)
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Research position
- assistant professor