The AI&I Collaboration Grant has the goal to stimulate new collaborations between research groups of at least 2 locations (AMC, VUmc, GGD, Sanquin, Reade).







The Amsterdam UMC Collaboration Grant made it possible for us to generate preliminary data that were used to successfully apply for an ENW-M NWO grant. With this grant, we will hire a PhD student and a Postdoc to continue our research and collaboration.
Dr. Coen Kuijl
Laureate AI&I Collaboration grant 2020
A&I collaboration grant in 2020, ENW-M NWO grant in 2022: read the story of Coen Kuijl and Nicole van der Wel here.

Laureates AI&I Collaboration grant 2022

Names Departments
Victor Thijssen and Sandra van Vliet Radiation Oncology and MCBI
Elena Rampanelli, Thijs van Mens and Maria Themeli Experimental Vascular Medicine, Vascular Medicine and Hematology
Abhijeet Nayak, Marit van Gils and Joppe Hovius Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine and Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention
Theo Geijtenbeek and Alsya Affandi Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology and Experimental Immunology
Hung Jen Chen and Marjolein van Egmond CEMM and MCBI
Maarten Steinz, Conny van der Laken, Jan van den Bossche, Anneke van der Kooi, and Joost Raaphorst Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, and Neurology

Laureates AI&I Collaboration grant 2020

Coen Kuijl (MMI/ Vumc) et al.
This collaboration was instigated after being jointly inspired by discussions with Dr. Jeffrey Buter (Stratingh Institute for Chemistry/ UG) and Drs. Nicole van der Wel (Electron Microscopy Centre Amsterdam/ AMC), who share a research interest in the mechanisms and implications of phagosomal escape of Mycobacteria and the approaches by which we study this phenomenon provide a clear potential for synergy. The goal of this grant proposal is to develop the technique: Mycobacterial Coating with Trehalose-Associated Proteins.
Nina van Sorge (MMI/ AMC) et al.
This is the start of a new collaboration between experts in microbiology (van Sorge), tissue engineering (Gibbs, MCBI/ VUmc) and mucosal immunology (Mebius, MCBI/ VUmc) with the aim to provide insight into the barrier-specific immune responses against the Gram-positive bacterial pathogen.
Joke den Haan (MCBI/ Vumc) et al.
This collaboration combines the expertise of two very different research groups to enable a completely new research line focused on the role of platelet activation on CD8+ T cell priming. For this the know-how of platelet activation and its role in innate immunity of the van der Poll/van ‘t Veer lab (CEMM/ AMC) is joined with the experience in CD8+ T cell priming by antigen presenting cells of the den Haan lab.
Mike Nurmohamed (Reade Rheumatology) et al.
This will mark a new collaboration between the Depts of Gastroenterology at AMC and VUMC and Reade Rheumatology (Nurmohamed) to extend their observations to rospective response prediction in rheumatic diseases and to perform an epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) using the Illumina EPIC BeadChip methylation array on responders and non-responders to the aforementioned biologicals in rheumatic diseases.