prof. dr. B.N. (Barbro) Melgert
Open positions: We currently have no open positions.
Ongoing Research Support
2026 - 2028 Beta Outreachfonds. Title: Stof tot Nadenken. Together with GLOBE Nederland and the Plastic Soup Foundation.
2026 - 2030 ZONMW Microplastics & Health grant. Title: MOMENTUM 3.0. Coordinating PI Legler (UU).
2025 - 2028 ENLIGHT. Title: PLASTIMPACT.
2025 - 2029 ZONMW Open competition. Title: Interrogating microplastics as an environmental driver of lung cancer origin. Together with Dr Stefan Prekovic (UMCU). Coordinating PI: Barbro N. Melgert.
Completed Research Support
2023 - 2025 ZONMW Microplastics & Health grant. Title: MOMENTUM 2.0. Coordinating PI Legler (UU).
2023 - 2024 Noordelijke CARA stichting. Title: Nylon dust: A lungful of trouble?
2022 - 2023 Young Academy Groningen incentive fund for interdisciplinary projects. Title: Microplastics macroproblem: Serious gaming to increase awareness of inhalable microplastics. Together with Dr J. Geiger and I. Maltagliati.
2021 - 2026 Innovative Medicines Initiative (EU). Titel: INNO4VAC: innovation for better human vaccine models. Together with Dr A. Huckriede (UMCG).
2021 - 2024 ZONMW Microplastics & Health grant. Title: MOMENTUM and MORE MOMENTUM. Coordinating PIs Legler (UU) and Vethaak (Deltares).
2019 - 2023 Industry grant Boerhringer Ingelheim. Title: Stromal tissue-macrophage interactions in pulmonary fibrosis. Together with Dr J.K Burgess (coordinating PI, UMCG).
2019 - 2020 ZONMW Microplastics grant together with Dr Reinoud Gosens (GRIP), Dr Anna Salvati (GRIP), and Dr Matthew Cole (Plymouth Marine Laboratory). Coordinating PI: Barbro N. Melgert. Title: What is the impact of microplastic fibers on our lungs?
2018 - 2019 Noordelijke CARA stichting. Title: Identification of novel molecular mechanisms regulating inflammation in pulmonary macrophages in COPD using differential acetylomics. Together with Dr M. Kwiatkowski.
2017 - 2019 RESPIRE ERS/EU fellowship for Dr M. Kwiatkowski. Title: Proteomics-based Pharmacological Biochemistry (P2B2)” - A strategy to identify protein species and signaling pathways regulating inflammatory responses of pulmonary macrophages in NFκB-mediated inflammation and COPD.
2015 - 2020 Consortium grant from the Dutch Lung Fund together with Lutter of AMC and Martinez of Oxford University. Coordinating PI: Barbro N. Melgert. Title: Does high baseline oxidative stress attenuate macrophage function during exacerbations of COPD and asthma?
2014 - 2020 Grant from the Penderfonds of the Organisation of Dutch Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients to fund the exchange of human fibrotic lung tissue between RUG/UMCG and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. PIs: Barbro N. Melgert and Bernt van der Blink.
2016 - 2017 Grant from Roche for fibrosis research together with Olinga (GRIP) and Faber/Dijkstra (UMCG)
2011 – 2015 Start up grant from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen. PI: Barbro N. Melgert. Title: The role of macrophages in the development of pulmonary fibrosis and COPD.
2011 – 2015 Research grant from the Netherlands Asthma Foundation. PI: Barbro N. Melgert. Title: The role of alternatively activated macrophages in the pathogenesis of asthma.
2006 – 2009 The role of sex hormones in the pathogenesis of asthma, funded by Netherlands Asthma Foundation, PI: Barbro N. Melgert