NBS and FEBS Travel Grants for Internships

Grants for international internships

The Nora Baart Stichting (NBS) has awarded travel grants to the following students:

The NVBMB has provided two grants for an internship abroad. Fenna Craenmehr (master Biomedical Engineering, TU/e) will visit the University of Zurich, Switzerland, to work on the synthesis of 14-3-3 proteins in the lab of Prof. Nina Hartrampf. Joanne van Keulen (master Infection and Immunity, UU) will visit the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, to work in the lab of Prof. Veening to elucidate which genes and environmental factors are important in the regulation of competence in S. pneumoniae.

Other recent travel grant recipients:

Anneloes Keijzer, Master Cancer, Stem Cells & Developmental Biology, Utrecht University will visit the lab of Dirk Hockemeyer, Li Ka Shing Center, University of California, Berkeley. The goal of her research project is to elucidate the molecular principles of telomere length control and telomerase-related diseases.

Irene Zaalberg, Master Cancer, Stem Cells & Developmental Biology, Utrecht University, is going to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, in Boston. There she will investigate the role of glycosylation in pancreatic cancer cells resistant to inhibition of the enzyme dihydrootate dehydrogenase.

Carli Koster, Leiden University, Life Sci & Technol, will rotate in the lab of David Sabatini, Whitehead Institute, MIT, Cambridge. Her studies are aimed at understanding how colorectal cancers and precursor adenomas reprogram their metabolism to scavenge nutrients through the lysosome.

Björn van Sambeek, Radboud University Nijmegen, Biomed Sci, will visit George Church, Harvard Medical School, Boston to determine How do transcription factor (TF)-differentiated microglia-like cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPS) interact with cerebral organoids.

Frederique van den Haak, Utrecht University, Infection & Immunity, will rotate in the lab of Hidde Ploegh, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, to study Novel Neutralizing Nanobodies Against the Ebola Virus.

Klasina Chappins, Utrecht University, Infection & Immunity, will perform an internship with Mark Hogarth, Burnet Institute, Melbourne to investigate the development and characterization of therapeutic antibodies.

Mara Nicolasen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Biomed Sci, will visit Ilaria Malanchi, Francis Crick Institute, London to study cross-talk between breast cancer cells and normal stromal cells of the bone.

Maren Pfirrmann, master molecular mechanisms of disease, Radboud University, will visit the Telethon Kids Institute in Nedlands, Australia, to work on immunotherapy in the context of a surgical procedure for cancer.

Nienke Prins, master life science & technology, University of Leiden, will perform her internship at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, to find new molecular targets to inhibit the filamentation of pathogenic bacteria.

Jaël Copier, master biology of disease, University of Utrecht, will visit the Imperial College London to unravel the role of calcium in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, using scanning ion-conductance-microscopy.