NHS Dekker afternoon with awarded fellowship and consortia grants
A joyful and successful day for the Medical Biochemistry department, on the Dekker afternoon of the Dutch Heart Foundation:
- Marten Hoeksema was awarded the Dekker Senior Scientist fellowship on his work on inflammatory lipid-associated macrophages in atherosclerosis.
- Menno de Winther, as consortium leader, received the cheque for the Athero-Neth consortium
- Vivian de Waard, consortium member of Aneurysm-NL, received funding for her aneurysm work.
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