Veerle Jessen

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PhD Candidate, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands, 2025-

MSc, Biology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 2022 – 2024

BSc, Biology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 2019 – 2022

Research

Asthma is a prevalent respiratory disease of the lower airways however the biological mechanisms critical for the onset of asthma remain unclear. My research focuses on hillock cells, a newly discovered cell subset in the airway epithelium, and the involvement of these cells in asthma inception.

Keywords: Asthma, Airway epithelium, Hillock cells