Prof.dr. Joke de Boer is an ophthalmologist and acknowledged expert in inflammatory eye diseases with a special interest in noninfectious and infectious uveitis in adults and children. Noninfectious uveitis is a vision-threatening chronic, progressive inflammation of the interior eye. Current treatment strategies with immunosuppressive medications may fail to prevent the decline in visual function. Her research focusses on the underlying pathogenesis of noninfectious uveitis and development of new treatment strategies for this blinding disease in collaboration with the Laboratory of Translational Immunology. To this end, she uses the ‘Systems Medicine’ approach that combines in-depth phenotyping of the peripheral immune-compartment of patients and computational modeling of the derived high-throughput data to reveal the true perpetrating epigenetic mechanisms that drive noninfectious uveitis. The nature of this approach makes it very well suited for identifying novel biomarkers to improve treatment and disease outcome in patients with noninfectious uveitis in the near future. Other research topics are aqueous humor analysis in infectious uveitis in collaboration with the virology section of the department of medical microbiology .  Joke de Boer is member of the International Uveitis Study Group, the national guideline committee for uveitis and the European guideline committee for uveitis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Member of the International Uveitis Study Group

Member of the European paediatric ophthalmology society

Member of the Dutch Ophthalmology society

Member of the Dutch uveitis study group

Member of the Multinational Interdisciplinary working group of uveitis in children

Member of the Dutch "kennis agenda"of ophthalology

Member of James Lind aliance of Juvenile idiopathic artritis

Chair of addendum biologicals of the Dutch guideline of uveitis

Chair Quality committee Dutch Ophthalmology society

Board member of uveitis guideline committee Dutch Ophthalmology society

Member of the Fluorescein Angiography Netherlands club.

Member of the Dutch pediatric ophthalmology study group

Member of the European guideline committee for uveitis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Host of the international uveitis symposium ISU 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands

1994    AER Montpellier, best paper award for “Low mature TGF-â2 in aqueous humour during uveitis”.

2011    ODAS price for paediatric ophthalmology

2011    The Clinical Uveitis Research Award from the European Uveitis Patient Interest Association