PhD Defence of Marlies Ketelaar

Marlies Ketelaar, a PhD student from the EXPIRE group succesfully defended her thesis titled “Functional and clinical translation of asthma and allergy associated genetic variants in IL33 and IL1RL1” on 14 June 2021. Congratulations Dr Marlies!

New ZonMw Project: Targeting mitochondrial function to enhance lung tissue regeneration in COPD: muscles to the rescue (MitoReg)

  Our ZonMw proposal is granted for funding! Starting from coming autumn we will be in a consortium investigating the mitochondrial dysfunction in COPD. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) is a prevalent, debilitating lung disease characterized by abnormal repair and irreversible damage in the lungs that currently cannot be treated and is often accompanied by…

PhD Defence of Gwenda Vasse

Gwenda F. Vasse, a PhD candidate from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxocology and at the Department of Pharmacology but currently working as a Post-Doc in the EXPIRE group succesfully defended her thesis titled “Macrophage-Matrix interactions orchestrating the fibrotic respons?” on 7 June 2021. Congratulations Gwenda! (and congratulations to her supervisors,…

Back to the lab!

After a Corona lookdown period of more than 2 months we are finally allowed to go back to the lab and re-start our research activities. We work in a University Medical Center, which is also a big hospital. During the Corona period all research activities were stopped because the hospital did not allow non healthcare…