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3 October 2023
Besides my work on nerve fibers and single cell analysis, I am always looking for ways to apply my -and my teams’- knowledge to the
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“It is invaluable to have a friend who shares your interests and helps you stay motivated.”
— Maryam Mirzakhani
Lara is a clinician scientist: as a pathologist I specialized in the clinical field of Liver Pathology.
In my daily work I have always loved to look at nerves in my histology slides. After years of training, now in my work as Principal Investigator my research focusses on nerves fibers in Cancer.
Julia continued the work that Simone started and joined our group in the summer of 2021. With her computational background she is involved in code development and analysis of our data. Also, she is the main driver of our Deep Learning projects. Currently, she works in insights and phenotyping of the immune environment of cholangiocarcinoma and biomarker development based on histology slides.
Konrad has an immunology background and is an PhD student. His work focusses on the tumor microenvironment and biomarker development. Special interest is the role of nerve fibers in cholangiocarcinoma and pancreatic cancer. He started in 2022 as a master student and after 4 years he will finish his PhD at Maastricht University.
My groups has transferred to the University Hospital Essen (Germany) and this has provided in new positions. We need help! Your photo can be placed here … interested in working in our group?
We are looking for students with skills in the immune cell environment in cancer, experience in immunohistochemistry, multiplexed imaging and single cell related projects, molecular techniques and or computational skills would be great. Multiple positions available!
Alina Murr succesfully finsihed her bachelor project on epigentic profiling in cholangiocarcinoma.
Background
Alina Murr joined our group in September 2021 and works on DNA isolation, epigenetics and Pyrosequencing. Her project will finish in June 2022 with hopefully exciting result on the genetic mutations in cholangiocarcinoma.
Mika continued his masters in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) after working for three years in my group on computational studies and deep learning projects.
Background
Mika joined our group in December 2020 and with help of his computational skills he has written many scripts for analysis of our data. Also he and Simone together are the main drivers of our Deep Learning projects.
Simone continued her masters at the RWTH Aachen (Germany) after working for three years in my group on computational studies and deep learning projects. Her work is taken over by Julia.
Background
Simone joined our group in the summer of 2020 and has a unique background profile. She has studied medical school and switched to a more computational focused study. This combined interest and experience has resulted in insights and support to our projects, analyzing big data on immune phenotyping of cholangiocarcinoma.
Xiuxiang finished her 4 year PhD project and succesfully defended her thesis at Maastricht University (May 24th, 2023). As her co-promotor, I’m very proud she will continue her career in research and se has found a PostDoc position in China.
Background
Xiuxiang has joined our group since 2019 and has worked for 3 years to finish a Dutch and a German PhD. She works in both cities, in two countries. She will finish two PhD: her Dutch PhD focusses on pancreatic cancer and cholangiocarcinoma and the immune cell environment and the German PhD focusses on Deep Learning in Pancreatic Cancer.
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Besides my work on nerve fibers and single cell analysis, I am always looking for ways to apply my -and my teams’- knowledge to the
No, these are living cells isolated, before freezing.This is what the viable single cells look like after an extensive digestion protocol. This quality check we
We hope that understanding more about the tumor microenvironment will increase patients’ chances of survival and improve their quality of life. Tumor microenvironment research is
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LARA HEIJ RESEARCH
Affiliated with University Hospital Essen & University Hospital Rotterdam EMC.