Aletta D. Kraneveld MSc, PhD

Aletta Kraneveld studied Pharmacy at the schools of Pharmacy at University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University. As a junior researcher she worked at the department of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology of Glaxo Group Research in the UK (1990-1991). She obtained her PhD at the department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Utrecht University (1994) after which she did an internship at the department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Boston MA, USA (PI Steve Galli). As a post doc she continued her research as immune-pharmacologist in Utrecht. In 1998 Aletta was appointed as assistant professor and in 2002 as associate professor at the division of Pharmacology of the department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Utrecht University. She has published 80 papers (H-index: 30). Besides science, she is an active member of several boards of (inter)national scientific organizations (Dutch Society of Pharmacology, EPHAR, IUPHAR, Netherlands Federation of Innovative Drug research).

Her current research interests involve targeting the interaction between innate and adaptive immunity as well as host-microbiome interactions in chronic (inflammatory) diseases with pharmaceutical as well as nutritional interventions. As principle investigator Aletta is focusing her research to in depth study the role of the gut-immune-brain-axis in inflammatory bowel disease, food allergy, and neurodevelopmental disorders (autism, preterm birth associated neurodevelopmental and immunological disorders) and neurodegenerative disorders (Parkinson’s disease) that will further enhance our knowledge of the interaction of innate and adaptive immune system and neurons in chronic inflammatory conditions in the gut and CNS.