Research Medewerkers
Hier ziet u een overzicht van onze wetenschappelijk medewerkers
Onderzoekers bij het IMI
Fijs van Leeuwen (Head of IMI-Lab)
- Development of new (targeted) imaging agents for molecular imaging applications (chemistry)
- Exploring the (clinical) potential of multimodal imaging agents
- Fluorescence- and radioguided surgery
- Diagnostic and surgical identification of diseased tissue
Renato Valdés Olmos
- Clinical development and application of hybrid cameras for radioactive/fluorescence signal detection
- Development and application of 3D augmented - and mixed reality models in surgical navigation
- Dedicated molecular breast imaging & radioguided intervention
Aldrik Velders (Head of BioNT group, Wageningen University)
- Development of supramolecular sensor strategies
- Exploitation of nanoparticle properties for optical sensing
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and fluorescence spectroscopy
- Microfluidics for on-flow spectroscopic sensing devices
Tessa Buckle
- Generation animal models for imaging studies
- Preclinical in vivo imaging using multiple modalities
- Microsurgery
- Visualization of nerve bundles
Mick Welling
- Biological validation and testing of probes and tracers: peptides, proteins, (stem) cells
- Molecular imaging and analysis based on radioactivity (pharmacology and targeting) in experimental animal models
- Bacterial imaging
- Molecular monitoring of antimicrobial therapy
Anton Bunschoten
- Multimodal imaging based on fluorescence and radioactivity
- Non-covalent interactions on proteins
- Förster resonance energy transfer
- Bacterial imaging
Frits Smit
- Nuclear Medicine
Daphne Rietbergen (Head of Nuclear Medicine)
- Nuclear Medicine e.g. Tracer administration, lymphoscintigraphy, SPECT/CT, radionuclear therapy, radioguided surgery
- Clinical implementation of innovating surgical guidance techniques: Fluorescence- and radioguided surgery, intraoperative image navigation
Matthias van Oosterom
- Applied Physics
- Prototyping
- Fluorescence and Bioluminescence
- Surgical Navigation
Silvia Spa
- Functionalization of bionanoparticles
- Self-assembly processes
- Development of imaging agent for nerve visualization
- u-contact printing
Pip Meershoek
- Clinical implementation of navigated ultrasound
Clarize de Korne
- Cell culture
- Immunohistochemical and fluorescent staining
- (Confocal) microscopy
Beatrice M.F. Winkel
- Nuclear medicine
- Medical (molecular) Imaging
- Translational research
- Parasitology
- Malaria and other skin penetrating parasites
Jan Bart ten Hove
- Synthesis and surface modification of nanoparticles
- (Orthogonal) chemistry
- Biosensor development
- Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
- Diffusion Ordered Spectroscopy
Danny van Willigen
- Synthesis of fluorescent dyes
- Synthesis of (hybrid) imaging agents
- Labeling of biomolecules for imaging applications
Fabian Hensbergen
- Synthesis of fluorescent dyes
Sven van Leeuwen
- Phantom production
- Hardware experiments
- Hardware maintenance
Diego Staphorst
- Development of computer assisted motility tracking software
Luuk Lageschaar
- micro-contact printing
- cell and protein labeling
- confocal microscopy
Michael Boutkan
- Nerve targeting
- Tracer synthesis
Germaine Aalderink
- Nerve targeting
- In vitro studies
Head of TNI

Dr. Luis J. Cruz, head of TNI (Assistant Professor)
- Nanomedicine
- Molecular Imaging
- Drug delivery systems
- Immunotherapy
- Nanotherapeutics
- Smart nanobiomaterials
- Photodynamic therapy
- NanoRegenerative Medicine
Researchers at TNI

Dr. Eric L. Kaijzel (Assistant Professor)
- Nanomedicine
- Imaging
- Immunotherapy
- Nanotherapeutics
- Smart nanobiomaterials
- GCP/GRP

Prof. Dr. Mathias H.H.D. Hoehn (Visiting Professor)
- Regenerative medicine
- Cerebral ischemia
- Immunotherapy
- Stem cells
- Molecular imaging
- In vivo MRI and optical imaging

Dr. Gastón Fuentes Estévez (Senior researcher)
- Drug delivery systems
- Calcium phosphates ceramics synthesis
- Calcium phosphates cements
- Calcium phosphates composites
- Statistics applied to biomaterials

Dr. Raimundo Fernandes de Araújo Júnior (Assistant Professor)
- Immunohistochemistry
- Immunoflourescence
- Flow cytometry
- Western blot

Dr. Yuedan Li (Postdoctoral fellow)
- biochemical, cell-based, or immunological assays
- stem cell therapies for genetic disorders
- molecular imaging

Dr. Christina Eich (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Tumour Immunology, Immunology, Immunotherapy
- Molecular Biology
- (Molecular) Imaging
- Hematopoietic stem cells
- Transcription Factors
- Immunotherapy

Dr. C. da Silva, Immunoloog (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Oncology
- Immunology
- Tumor Immunology
- Immunotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Nanomedicine
- Tumor microenvironment immune modulation
- Therapeutic cancer vaccines

Drs. Ruben Huis in ’t Veld (PhD Student)
- Oncology
- Immunology
- Photodynamic therapy
- Nanomedicine

Drs. Luana Zerrillo (PhD Student)
- Nanoparticles
- Drug delivery
- Molecular imaging
- Nanomedicine

Drs. Chih Kit Chung (PhD Student)
- Immunology
- Tumor immunology
- Immunotherapy
- Nanomedicine (nanoparticles)

Drs. Jomarien Garcia (PhD Student)
- Polymeric biomaterials
- Nanomedicine
- Tissue enginnering
- Cartilage regeneration

Drs. Yaima Campos Mora (PhD Student)
- Scaffolds
- Tissue engineering
- Cartilage regeneration

Drs. Ana Luiza Oliviera (PhD student)
- Molecular biology of cancer
- Cell culture
- Flow cytometry
- Immunofluorescence

Ivo Que (Senior Research Technician)
- Role imaging equipment
- Role animal facility (trainer/ambassador) etc

Tracy Li (Research Technician)
- Cell culture
- Imaging
- Animal works

Drs. Fabio Baldazzi (Research Technician)
- Molecular Biology
- Analytical Chemistry
- Cell culture
Musculoskeletale Radiologie

Dr. Monique Reijnierse
- Musculoskeletal
- Ultrasound