Overview of the projects funded by CDI and Bo Hjelt foundation from 1990 onwards:

Pim N.N. Mooij: Vitamins, Folate and reproduction: a study in Humans and animals (1992)

Regine Steegers-Theunissen: Homocysteine, Vitamins and Neural Tube defects (1993)

Leon A.G.J.M. van Aerts: Embryotoxicity studies on cyclophosphamide and homocysteine (1995)

M.G.A.J. Wouters: Recurrent miscarriages and hyperhomocysteinaemia (1996)

Nathalie M.J. van de Put (cum laude): Homocysteine, folate and neural tube defects. Biochemical and molecular genetic analysis (1999)

L.A. Brouwer: Folic acid, folate and homocysteine: human intervention studies (1999)

E. van der Molen: Disturbed homocysteine metabolism, endothelial dysfunction and placental vasculopathy (2000)

Project:
Identification of folate related mechanisms induced by Fumonisin in the pathogenesis and prevention of neural tube defects by advanced epigenetic techniques.

Funded by CDI for 4 years.
Duration: 2009–2012
Thesis: Marieke Bot, 2013

Project:
The identification of the role of the oxidative pathway in the pathogenesis and prevention of congenital heart disease by advanced nutrigenomic, genomic and proteomic tools.

Funded by CDI for 3 years.
Duration: 2005–2008
Thesis:  Dineke Smedts, 2010
            Lydi van Driel, 3/11 2009
            Sylvia Borst, 2011

Project:
The application of proteomics in the investigation of the pathogenesis and prevention of spina bifida

Partially funded by CDI.
Duration: 1/102003-1/6/2004
Thesis:  Bert Bliek 2010

Project:
The biochemistry of body fluids and the antenatal condition of the fetus with spina bifida

Partially funded by CDI.
Duration: 2000
Thesis: Pascal Groenen, 2003

Support is given on a yearly basis for scientific research on the prevention of neural-tube defects.

Research programs:
Primary prevention of open neural tube defects with multivitamins.
Theses: Pim Mooij, 1992
            Regine Steegers-Theunissen, 1993
            Leon van Aerts, 1995
            Nathalie van der Put, 1999