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Mihai Netea
Netea, a Spinoza Prize laureate and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, established the concept of trained immunity, showing that innate immune cells retain memory of past infections. His international collaborations on BCG vaccination and inflammation have opened new routes to vaccines and therapies for infectious and autoimmune disease.
Roshan Cools
Cools investigates how dopamine and serotonin shape motivation, cognitive control and flexibility, combining pharmacology with brain imaging at the Donders Institute. Her findings on why medication effects differ between people are directly relevant to treating Parkinson's disease and ADHD, and she works across psychiatry, neurology and industry partnerships on smarter, stratified interventions.
Guillen Fernandez
Fernandez, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, studies how stress and emotion transform memory circuits in the human brain. As scientific director at the Donders Institute's medical neuroscience centre he leads large cohort neuroimaging programmes, and his long running collaborations with Chinese and German laboratories link basic memory science to resilience and mental health.