It has taken some time, but today we heard that the last paper to which Song has made a contribution was accepted by the Journal of Experimental Medicine. This was excellent work that was driven forward by our collaborator Andrés Hidalgo at Yale University.

Today we heard that the first paper titled: “Structural bioinformatics for rational drug design”, was accepted for publication in  Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Many credits go to Soroush, Aggie and CheYee, and great work by Kanin!
This is a nice Christmas present!

Today the last unpublished chapter from Joram’s thesis was accepted for publication in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. While Joram was unable to to the needed extra experiments, Gwen came to the rescue and did a good job in assuring the manuscript was accepted. Congratulations to all coauthors for providing this nice piece of work!

Today the Midterm check was held at the UM Hub in Brussels, Belgium. While the term midterm is a bit misplaced, it was a true and important check during which our REA Officer, Mrs Ozana Labunet was informed about all proceedings inside the doctoral network and provided the network with much appreciated feedback.

Special thanks also to all the associated partners who devoted their time to being there and providing support and feedback!

Today Kanin, Tara and Kanin chaired a focus session at the ISICEM congres in Brussels (Belgium).

A first presentation by Aggie and Soroush on their results within the PRAETORIAN doctoral network.
It went really fine and together with the experts from academia and industry the session was truely inspirational!

Today Joram defended his thesis and did so in a most excellent way.
All jury members commended his skills, his calm assertiveness and obvious talent for science, to a level that they did not often see at PhD defenses.

Well done Joram and good luck during your postdoctoral stay in the Mayo Clinic!

At the yearly CARIM symposium, Gerry presents the PRAETORIAN doctoral network to the CARIM society, introducing the partners involved, as well as all the doctoral candidates, who were all invited to the scientific and more festive events during this annual event.

In the week from 25-11-2024 till 29-11-2024 we hosted the 10 PRAETORIAN doctoral candidates in Maastricht, for a week filled with many exciting lectures and workshops in the Immunology field, as well as with translational skills from the industrial sector. We combined science with fun and were happy to see all students participated enthusiastically!

(https://www.praetorian-dn.eu/)

Today Angelina has defended her thesis named: “Targeted Treatment of Vascular Calcification”

Angelina did very well, was calm as ever and showed she mastered the topic very well, congratulations!!

In an unuasual fast way was Gwen’s first paper, a review on the toxicity of extracellular histones accepted in Current Opinion in Hematology,

congratulations Gwen!!