Staff members with discipline Respiratory System
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- Bachelor projects Molecular Pharmacology
- Master projects Molecular Pharmacology
- Pharmacology of Chronic Diseases and Aging
- MG: Endocrine system, Respiratory tract and Digestive Tract
- MG: Circulatory Tract- Collected Medicine Groups
- Academic research and communication skills (1, 2 and 3)

He obtained his PharmD and PhD at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), where his thesis focused on the cost-effectiveness of adherence enhancing interventions in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). After his PhD research, he completed fellowships at the University of Colorado (USA), Monash University (Australia) and the Hospital Universitario Son Espases (Spain).
He is (co)author of >175 scientific publications (H-index: 39), supervisor of 10 PhD students and received several research prices & grants (totalling>€6 million). He is Chair of the European Respiratory Society CRC on digital respiratory health "CONNECT", Chair of the Dutch respiratory pharmacists group (KNMP SIG Long), former Boardmember of the Dutch young Medicines Evaluation Board (Jong CBG), ZonMW-GGG committee member, Scientific lead of the Lung Alliance Netherlands (LAN) National Medication Adherence Program, expert research faculty at the IPCRG & EAACI, Editorial Board member of various peer-reviewed journals and has an extensive international network (e.g. ERS, IPCRG, EAACI, ISPE, REG, ESPACOMP, ISPOR).
Having interest and wide experience in both medication adherence and health economic methods, his mission is to find novel, cost-effective ways to make better, personalized use of our respiratory medications in order to maximize both patients’ and societal benefits.
Through multidisciplinary research, education and care support, he aims to provide means to accelerate implementation of drug-device technologies (digital inhalers, electronic pill bottles & blisters and smart spacers) and practical adherence monitoring & management tools (e.g. the TAI Toolkit) in daily clinical practice, to ultimately optimize patient, economic and societal outcomes.
Specialties:
- Methods & application: medication adherence, compliance, persistence, e-health, smart inhalers, bottles and spacers, digital adherence technology, (pharmaco) epidemiology, real-world drug outcomes, pharmacoeconomics, health economics, burden of disease, budget impact, health technology assessment, cost-effectiveness.
- Disease focus areas: Asthma / COPD / TB / CF/ Lung cancer






Data science
Immunology
Lung pathology
Pulmonology
Microplastics
Animal models of asthma, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis
Flow cytometry
Histology

Mijn onderzoek kent twee thema’s, die allebei een sterk translationeel karakter hebben:Ten eerste heb ik een onderzoekslijn functionele genetica van chronische longaandoeningen , waarbinnen wij de biologische effecten proberen te ontrafelen van de genetische variatie die bijdraagt aan de gevoeligheid van de patiënt voor astma of COPD. Ten tweede heb ik een onderzoekslijn translationeel onderzoek naar de mechanismen van allergeen immunotherapie , waarbinnen we in een combinatie van basaal onderzoek in muismodellen en patient-gebonden onderzoek het werkingsmechanisme van allergeen immunotherapie proberen te achterhalen, met als doel de effectiviteit van deze behandeling te kunnen verbeteren.









