Fields of Scholarship
Tumor immunology
Inflammation and Cancer
Crosstalk adaptive and innate immune cells in cancer
Breast Cancer
Metastasis
Transgenic mouse models
Tumor microenvironment
Immunotherapy

Honours and Awards
2016 Selected member of the EMBO Young Investigator Program (YIP)
2016 Invited member of the European Academy for Tumor Immunology (EATI)
2015 The Metastasis Research Price for advanced researchers of the Beug Foundation for Metastasis Research
2014 ERC consolidator grant laureate
2009 NWO-VIDI laureate
2009 NWO/Aspasia award: career advancement award of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of NWO.
2003 AACR-Women in cancer research Brigid G. Leventhal Scholar-in-Training Award, awarded at the 94th AACR Annual Meeting
2003 - 2005 Fellowship for fundamental and (pre)-clinical cancer research from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF). This prestigious fellowship fully covered my postdoctoral training in the Coussens lab at UCSF, USA