Leidschendam, South Holland, Netherlands
During my Master Biomedical Sciences I learned I have a passion for clinical research. Balancing learning about both fundamental (bio)medical content and operational aspects of organizing clinical trials is what floats my boat and allows me to fully enjoy my work.
At CATO SMS, which transitioned to be Allucent per 01May2022
Contact patients by telephone from different pharmacies in the Leiden region for recruitment for the farmacogenetic study ‘PREPARE’ from the Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics consortium, related to the department of Clinical Pharmacy and Toxicology at the LUMC.
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Junior Research Project II (second internship) of the Master Biomedical Sciences for the duration of 31.5 weeks at Unit 1113 in Strasbourg (Developmental and cell stress signalling in digestive and urological cancers, molecular mechanisms of the stress response and pathologies) Title: Molecular mechanisms involved in neuronal plasticity and degeneration by anticancer chemotherapy in the enteric nervous system Link to experiences with this lab at the website of Eurolife Universities: http://eurolifeuniversities.org/eurolife-mobility-programme-2016-2017/
Weekly DNA isolation from whole blood ('salting out' method), including administrative tasks in ProMISE, Microsoft Access and Excel databases. Measurement of purity of DNA samples on NanoDrop spectrophotometer.
Junior research project 1 for the Master Biomedical Sciences. Histochemical staining and quantification of bone marrow smears, epidemiological research, EZIS database consulting Title: Iron overload in hemato-oncological patients: an overlooked side effect of red blood cell transfusions (Awarded the H.J.C.M. van Dijk prize, May 2017) Manuscript of this project (second author) accepted for publication in the European Journal of Haematology (18 June 2018)
Sectioning paraffin embedded mouse aortic roots with a microtome, (immune)histochemical staining and quantification using ImageJ