Project Lead at Clinical Immunology of Janssen Vaccines and Prevention. Coordinating the development, execution and maintenance of high quality immuno assays to determine immune biomarkers of vaccine clinical trials for emerging infectious diseases.

During this Science and Business Fellow, she worked 1 year at the division of Formulation Science and Technology of Drug Product Development with Janssen Vaccines. This with a focus on adjuvant development and manufacturing for several vaccine projects.During the second year of the rotation fellowship she works as Project Lead at department of Clinical Immunology, coordinating the analysis of clinical trial immunology samples for one of the vaccine programs.

Science and Business Fellowship at ProcamCareer Crafter. Offers young scientists the opportunity to get insight in the multidimensional character of the pharmaceutical industry at Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, while developing management and leadership skills through an extensive training and rotation program.

“Delivery and Immunogenicity of Biopharmaceuticals for Therapy and Vaccination” Marit worked on in vitro and in vivo immunogenicity assessment of drug delivery systems for biopharmaceuticals and vaccines. This is part of the european IMI funded COMPACT consortioum with both academic and major industrial pharmaceutical partners. www.compact-research.org, Keywords regarding research: Immunology, innate Toll Like Receptors, Dendritic Cells, T cell, Drug Delivery, MicroneedlesTechniques used and mastered in PhD: cellular assays, murine in vivo T cell response, cell culture, flow cytometry, Cytokine multiplex, PCR

A literature study on the efficacy of the 3 large scale HIV vaccines in a Master thesis at the department of experimental virology. Combining both specialisms of master studies (infectious diseases and immunology).

Contributing to the research on a novel splice-variant of the neutrophil receptor FcgRIIa as part of a Master Internship. techniques: cell culture, protein cloning, cellular activation assays. Van der Heijden et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 May

Characterization of chaperone protein Mh1794 belonging to the bacterial ESX5 secretion system as part of a 6 month master internship. Published in Daleke et a 2012 J. Biol. Chem.Techniques mainly included: bacterial culture, westernblotting, protein prufication