Decisions are made together with the AGEM research board, consisting of approximately 8 PIs across AGEM's four research programs. Additionally, AGEM is supported by a Business Developer, a junior board (Young AGEM) and several committees. The organization is visualized in the following figure.
AGEM Directorate
Anita Boelen, PhD
Co-director AGEM Research Institute
Amsterdam UMC, location: AMC
Endocrine laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry
Nanne de Boer, PhD
Co-director AGEM Research Institute
Amsterdam UMC, location: VUmc
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Foto: Modus Meisen
Research board
The AGEM research board consists of approximately eight senior AGEM researchers, at least one representative from each of the AGEM research programs. The research board meets approximately once per two months with the AGEM directors and policy officers to discuss AGEM policy. More information can be found here.
Young AGEM
Young AGEM is currently made up of four AGEM mid-career researchers. If you have any questions about your role or your possibilities within AGEM as a Young AGEM researcher, you can send an email to youngagem@amsterdamumc.nl.
Signe Mosegaard Nielsen
I am a postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases. My research focuses on the development of stem cell derived models for rare inherited metabolic diseases and using these to detect novel disease mechanisms and testing alternative treatment strategies.
Patrick de Jonge
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the department of experimental vascular medicine, where I started after obtaining my PhD from Utrecht University in 2020. My main research focus are viruses of microbes called bacteriophages and how they interact with bacterial populations in the human gut.
Alicia Furumaya
I received my PhD degree at the Department of Surgery on benign liver tumours and cysts, in which field I am still active as a researcher. I am currently working as a medical doctor working at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Alkmaar.
Bruno Sovran
I am a senior scientist working within the AGEM in Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research and Pediatric Surgery Department. In AGEM, I lead research around the role of Tryptophan metabolism in (pediatric) intestinal health and disease. I was recently appointed assistant professor at the Emma Centre for Personalized Medicine to carry on research on paediatric intestinal failures.
Committees
Retreat committee:
Committee existing of Manon Wildenberg, Eva Dirkx-Beuling, Esther de Regt and 6-10 PhD candidates and postdocs from different departments. You can reach the committee via agemretreat@amsterdamumc.nl.
PhD candidate course committee:
Annemieke Heijboer, Hilde Herrema, Eva Dirkx-Beuling, Esther de Regt
Tager lecture committee:
Noam Zelcer, Riekelt Houtkooper, Eveline Bruinstroop, Susanne La Fleur.