Bob Kullberg has won the prestigious Talma Eykman thesis prize of the Faculty of Medicine of Utrecht University for the scientific internship he did at the Center for Experimental Molecular Medicine (CEMM) in Amsterdam UMC on the topic 'The role of the lung microbiome in pneumonia' under the supervision of Bas Haak and Joost Wiersinga. Wiersinga: "We are proud of Bob, who is now going to take his PhD!