Scientific Review Committee

The quality and progress of LRI-financed research projects are assessed by the independent Scientific Review Committee, which advises the LRI on the approval and financing of research proposals.

Dr R.W. Truman (Chair)

Former Chief of the Laboratory Research Branch of the National Hansen’s Disease Program, USA, and Principal Investigator of the Leprosy Research Support program of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Dr A.P. Koets (Member)

Prof. Dr P.D. Deps (Member) 

Full Professor at Department of Social Medicine, Postgraduate Programme in Infectious Diseases, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil.

Prof. F. Portaels (Member)

Professor Emeritus Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.

Prof. P. Fine (Member)

Professor Emeritus of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

Dr Z.B. da Silva Pereira (Member)

Adjunct Associate Professor (External Professor), Psychology Department, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil.

Dr C. White (Member)

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University, USA.

Dr K.M. Dupnik (Member)

Assistant Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, as well as faculty in the Center for Global Health, USA.

Dr F.J. Slim (Member)

Rehabilitation Specialist and Staff Member, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Rivierenland Hospital, Tiel, the Netherlands.