Today Danielle defended her PhD thesis. It was a very special occasion, for many reasons, not in the least that this was the first thesis defense by video connection for our group.

Well done Danielle!, We will miss your daily presence in our group!

Today we were supposed to have Danielle’s PhD defense. Already postponed once, again Danielle can not defend her thesis today due to the Covid-19 outbreak. We are very sorry, since she prepared so well.

Certainly, when all has settled she will have a new opportunity to show her skills and expertise and we will especially have a good reason then to celebrate the new doctor!

Today the Maastricht University was targeted by a major hack that resulted in a shut-down of all computer systems, This very disturbing situation lasted until the middle of January. It had big consequences for staff and students of our organisation who were unable to use e-mail nor internet.

NEVER open any mail/attachment from unknown senders!

After a 3,5 year struggle we heard that the manuscript by Nuno, in which also Bogac has been supporting, was accepted for publication in Haematologica. Congratulations to all involved, all the effort that has gone in shows.

In a study that was conducted with our colleagues from the ICU at the Maastricht UMC, and in particular Martine Bol, unders upervision of Macel van de Poll and Jan Willem Sels, we received word from “Shock” that our paper was accepted for publication.

We very much sherish the collaboration and look forward to our future work together.

Today we heard that a manuscript that was prepared together with Sacha Bohler and Jacco Briede was accepted for publication in “Clinical and Translational Science”. Song made a major contribution to the paper, congratulations Song!

Today the joint publication between many groups from all over the world, but under the excellent coordination of Oliver Soehnlein, was published in Nature.

It shows that 1 + 1 = 3 !

None of us could ever have done this alone, and the outcome is so much better than we could have imagined. Great work everyone!

Histones rock! 🙂

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1167-6

At the annual meeting of the Netherlands Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (NVTH), Bogac was awarded a award for his excellent abstract and presentation on ADAMTS13. Well done! Not only he received a nice diploma, there also was a checque worth 1500,- to be used on a scientific congress.

In a joint effort we wrote a review on the design of peptides for the inhibition of protein-protein interaction.

Today we learned the review is accepted for publication in Future Medicinal Chemistry.

Congrats to all involved!

Today Femke has started her work as a research assistent, bridging the time between het Bachelors’ degree and resuming education as a Master student in Aug 2019.

It’s great to have you in our team Femke, enjoy the coming time.