The 3th of June Cyrillo Brahm succesfully defended his thesis titled: “Improving the standard of care in glioblastoma: novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches”. It was a privilege to supervise Cyrillo. I’m also very happy that he started his training for Internal Medicine, and the fact that he may become a colleague medical oncologist in the…
Sergi Guerrero successfully defended his PhD-thesis today! Jointly supervised as co-promotor with Marcel van Vugt. https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/latest-news/events/promoties/?hfId=118982 https://research.rug.nl/nl/publications/exploiting-genomic-instability-as-an-achilles-heel-in-cancer Genomic instability is a hallmark of cancer for which an important cause is the DNA damage generated by oncogene-induced replication stress (RS). Genomically instable cancers increasingly depend on checkpoint kinases, including ATR and WEE1, to activate the DNA…
On Monday February 24th, Kirsten Moek successfully defended his PhD thesis. See the summary description of his thesis below: Over the last decades many molecules and key pathways in cancer were identified, which facilitated a shift in anticancer drug development from DNA-damaging chemotherapy to a more personalized approach with targeted antibody therapeutics including antibody-drug conjugates (ADC)…
On Wednesday November 20th, Rico Bense successfully defended his PhD thesis. See the summary description of his thesis below: In clinical practice, breast cancer is currently divided into subtypes based on immunohistochemical expression of the estrogen receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. These subtypes are crucial for treatment choice and outcome. However, even…
On Wednesday July 10th, Stephanie van Gijn successfully defended her PhD thesis. We wish her all the best in her new position at the Institut für Genetik of the University Zürich.
Carlos is a medical doctor from Mexico with good bioinformatical skills. So I’m very happy that Carlos with his rare combination of skills is joining our group. Carlos previously was a topmaster student in the Medical Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation (MPDI) topmaster at the University of Groningen / University Medical Center Groningen and worked in my…
I’m happy to announce that Vincent Leeuwenburgh will join my group in 2017. Vincent applied in May 2017 for one of the Young Academy Interdisciplinary PhD positions and was selected based on an excellent research proposal written by him. I will jointly supervise this project with Marthe Walvoort (assistant professor at the Faculty of Science…
As of first of November, Carlos G. Urzua Traslavina joined the group for a 6 month project. Carlos is a topmaster student in the Medical Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation (MPDI) topmaster. He will be working on the subject: Classifying primary unknowns with gene expression profiles and neural networks. Very happy with that a MD is excited…
Arkajyoti Bhattacharya is starting as a PhD-student in my group. He is a trained statistician from the Indian Statistical Institute and will be working on the project ‘Mining big data to improve biologically personalized therapeutics for cancer patients’.
I’m proud to announce that Rico Bense will join my research group. He has been granted a joint MD/PhD program by the Junior Scientific Masterclass (University Medical Center Groningen). His research proposal is titled: Identifying therapeutic targets and modulators of therapy efficacy in breast cancer subgroups. I’m looking forward to work with him the coming…