Both Aggie andSoroush present their data at the focus session, organized by the PRAETORIAN consortium, at the ISICEM congress in Brussels.
Well done both!

Today the second annual network meeting of the Praetorian Doctoral network was organized at the UM hub in Brussels. While it was good to connect to all consortium partner, it was nice to see all the progress made and fruitful discussions and interaction.

Today Tim Postmus,who has been working at the Sanquin Research Institute in Amsterdam, under the supervision of Jan Voorberg and the co-supervision of Gerry successfully defended his thesis titled:
“Towards novel therapies of iTTP: defining and shielding of antibody epitopes on ADAMTS13”.

Tim handled all questions very skillfully, congratulations!!

Today Tom has defended his thesis titled: “PAD4 takes charge”, at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He did so in his very own eloquent and enthusiastic way. The thesis committee was very pleased with the quality of the work performed and the thesis written. Another great collaboration between our group and the group of Prof Jan Voorberg, a coworker since many years and a good friend on top of that. Many thanks also to Dr. Kimberley Martinod for appearing in person in Amsterdam, specially for this occasion.

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Today the last unpublished chapter from Joram’s thesis was accepted for publication in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.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!