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!
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,…
PhD Defense of Laura Hesse
Laura Hesse, a PhD candidate from EXPIRE group, has successfully defended her thesis on March 02, 2021. Well done Laura, congratulations !
Martijn Nawijn and his team are the 2020 winners of the NRS Crossover Science Award
Dr. ir. Martijn Nawijn from our group (and his team) won the NRS Crossover Science Award 2020 for his work on the Lung Cell Atlas. It describes the healthy human lungs, and the disease-associated changes in the cellular landscape of the airway wall in patients with childhood-onset asthma. The combination of innovative single-cell analyses…