Warris Adilia

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Since 4 years she is the head of the division of paediatric infectious diseases & immunology within the department of Paediatrics at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. She is involved in many activities as patient care (primary immunodeficiencies, HIV/AIDS, opportunistic infections, hospital-acquired infections), education and training of students, residents and trainees, national and international post-graduate training, management and research. She closely collaborates with prof. dr. Peter Hermans, head of the Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. The research performed by them has a predominantly translational profile, although clinical and to a lesser extent basic research also forms part of their profile. Topics of special interests are invasive fungal infections and respiratory tract infections, both with a focus on epidemiology, host response and diagnostics, biomarkers, vaccine development, and poverty related infections. She obtained her PhD in 2004 on her thesis “Invasive filamentous fungal infections. Epidemiology and Host responses”.

She was awarded for her research activities on host-pathogen interactions in the innate immune response against Aspergillus fumigatus with the ESCMID/FEMS Research Fellowship in 2006. Stefanie Henriet, one of her PhD-students was awarded with an ESPID/Wyeth fellowship for her research-proposal ‘Pathogenicity of Aspergillus nidulans in CGD patients’. In 2009 she initiated the Dutch Pediatric Mycology Network, a collaboration between the 8 university hospitals in the Netherlands, to study the clinical epidemiology of invasive fungal infections. She is one of the principal investigators of the PRIOR-projects on paediatric HIV/AIDS. PRIOR stands for Poverty Related Infection Oriented Research and is an international research collaboration on malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She has published 45 international and 10 national peer-reviewed publications, and wrote 3 international book chapters. She is a member of the editorial board of the ‘Dutch Journal of Infectious Diseases’ and the international journal ‘Medical Mycology’.