Prescilla Jeurink

Dr. Prescilla Jeurink is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Utrecht University's Faculty of Science. She serves as Managing Director of Future Food Utrecht and teaches in the Bachelor Pharmacy and Health, Care and Society programs. Her work bridges academia and industry through public-private partnerships.

• University Lecturer (2020–2025)
• Cluster Leader at FrieslandCampina R&D (2018–2020)
• Senior Scientist at Nutricia Research (2012–2018)

Her research explores immune system resilience, focusing on how nutrition impacts allergology, pediatric health, and gut microbiota. She investigates dietary interventions for allergy prevention, food safety regarding mycotoxins, and intestinal model development for drug testing.

Recent publications highlight her work on bovine milk fat effects in infants, synbiotic mixtures in asthma models, and human milk components in pathogen interaction. Her 2022 mSystems paper on infant gut microbiota modeling demonstrates cross-disciplinary applications in nutrition and computational biology.

• Coordinated public-private grant projects
• Lecturer in Immunology, Nutrition, and Allergy
• Supervisor of bachelor's theses and student research hubs

She contributes to sustainability education through Future Food Utrecht's Triple I (Impact, Innovation, Involvement) framework, fostering collaboration across seven Utrecht faculties and external institutions.