Dr. Aletta Kraneveld

Biography

Aletta Kraneveld studied Pharmacy at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University. She worked as a junior researcher in the department of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology at Glaxo Group Research in the UK from 1990 to 1991. She obtained her PhD in the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy at Utrecht University in 1994, after which she continued her research at the Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Following her postdoctoral work as an immunopharmacologist at Utrecht, she was appointed as an assistant professor in 1998 and became an associate professor in 2002 in the Division of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Utrecht University. In 2016, she was appointed full professor of Interdisciplinary Translational Pharmacology at the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University. Aletta Kraneveld is an active member of various (inter)national scientific societies and boards, including the Dutch Society of Pharmacology and FEDERA. Since March 1, 2020, she has served as the vice dean for Research in the Faculty of Science at Utrecht University. Her current research interests involve targeting the interaction between innate and adaptive immunity, host-microbe interactions, and chronic inflammatory disorders through pharmaceutical and nutritional interventions. The Kraneveld group focuses on the gut-immune system-brain axis, enhancing understanding of the interactions between intestinal microbiota, the immune system, and chronic conditions affecting the gut, airways, and central nervous system.

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