Marten Hoeksema was awarded the prestigious ERC Starting grant to start his own research group! With this grant Marten will study how cytokines, small secreted signaling molecules with immune-modulatory function, shape the phenotype of macrophages, thereby affecting chronic inflammatory diseases.


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February 18, 2026
Discovery of Pathogenic Signaling Cascade in  Capillary Malformations
By Marten Hoeksema February 16, 2026
Our most recent work showing an alternative pathway activated by interferons in macrophages, now published online in Cell Reports:
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