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Medical Biochemistry
At the annual symposium of the Amsterdam institute for Immunology and Infectious diseases (AII), Guillermo Griffith has won the best poster award within the Immunology program. Congrats, Guillermo!!
On June 17th, Amber Meurs successfully defended her PhD thesis “A cycle of trasport and regulation - unveiling the hidden routes of cellular cholesterol transport” at the University of Amsterdam.
On July 1, Rianne Schoon successfully defended her PhD thesis, Building Bridges: Molecular Regulation of Endothelial Junctions for the Vascular Barrier, at the University of Amsterdam. Afterwards, Dr. Schoon invited the opposition committee to enjoy a scenic boat trip across Amsterdam cannals to see the Skinny Bridge up close. 🥳 Huge congratulations from a proud team of supervisors and colleagues!
VE-cadherin & ARVCF publication in iScience
The yearly AGEM awards were announced: Sebastian Hendrix will receive the AGEM Talent grant which will allow him to develop his project on MASLD. The AGEM innovation grant to study regulation of NPC1 was awarded to team ACHILLES consisting of Klevis Ndoj, Marion Brands, Georges Janssens, and Noam Zelcer.
Cytokine specificity in macrophages: JAK-STAT and beyond
Discovery of Pathogenic Signaling Cascade in Capillary Malformations
Our most recent work showing an alternative pathway activated by interferons in macrophages, now published online in Cell Reports:
Congratulation to Solaiman Ezzafzafi, Yihuan Zhaand and Marijn Bult, who won the best research proposal competition during the AGEM PhD course. They will develop an in vitro cell system to predict the working of sgRNAs in the liver in vivo.
