Internship grants 2012

5 internship grants awarded to Master’s students in the academic year 2011-2012 to:

  • Lisanne Vat, medical student, EUR
    Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia
    Internship grant for elective research for 21 weeks
  • Si Chen, Master of Biopharmacy UMCU
    Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA
    Internship grant to research ´Using zebrafish to test the effects of 5q chromosome deletions on Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) and transformation to Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML);
  • Remi Ramjiawan, Master Oncology VU
    Harvard Medical School Boston, U
    Internship grant for research on ´The role of the FAK/Src pathway in breast cancer metastasis´
  • Iris de Weerdt, Medicine
    MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, Texas, USA
    Gene expression profiling before and during therapy with ibrutinib, rituximab and allopurinol in high-risk CLL patients;
  • Joyce Buikhuisen, UvA, Biomedical Sciences
    Whitehed Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA
    Extracellular signals delivered by the tumour microenvironment that promote Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition.