On 8 September 2021 Kaj Blokland, a PhD student from our group succesfully defended his thesis, titled: “The ECM as a driver of fibroblast senescence and disrupted epithelial repair in IPF”. Congratulations Kaj!
PhD Defence of Virinchi Kuchibhotla
Virinchi Kuchibhotla, a PHD student from our group successfully defended his thesis titled “The role of E-cadherin/beta-catenin signalling in the development of an asthmatic airway epithelial phenotype” on 28 June 2021. Due to the Corona situation Virinchi defended online from India Congratulations Virinchi !
NRS Young Investigator Award for Aurore Gay
The 2021 Young Investigator Award from the Netherlands Respiratory Society has been awarded to Aurore Gay, second-year PhD student working at the department of Pathology & Medical Biology and the GRIAC research Institute of the UMCG. Aurore Gay presented her research on infection of airway epithelial cells from asthma patients and healthy controls with the…
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,…
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 !
Medische Publieksacedemie
Martijn Nawijn talked in the UMCG Medische Publieksacedemie how COVID-19 enters the human body. You can watch his presentation back here (sorry, dutch only)
What are the long-term consequences of a COVID-19 infection?
Many patients who have had COVID-19 continue to have health complaints for a long period of time. The long-term effects of the damage caused by the virus and the body’s response to it is unclear. A team of researchers (including Irene Heijink and Daan Pouwels of the EXPIRE lab in the UMCG), private parties and…
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…