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Maxine wins an award at EANO!
Maxine had the honor of receiving an Investigator Travel Scholarship for Outstanding Science of the Nurses & Allied Healthcare Professionals with an interest in Neuro-Oncology at EANO in Rome! Her study, “Assessing the multidimensionality of symptoms in patients with diffuse glioma using symptom networks,” explores how different symptoms experienced by people with diffuse glioma may…
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Desmond joins us as an MSCA DC!
We have another new PhD candidate in the team. Desmond is doing his PhD at the Mathematics department of VU Amsterdam, with Rikkert Hindriks and Frank van der Meulen, within the MSCA-DN BeyondTheEdge. He will stay with us for a secondment of six months. Welcome Desmond! “Hi everyone. My name is Huixiaqing Liu. I know…
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Goodbye (for now) to Maxine
Yesterday, we said goodbye to Maxine on the very last day of her PhD! Over the past four years, Maxine has been an invaluable part of the MULTINET and GRIP team. She set up a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial investigating whether transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can improve cognitive functioning in people with a brain tumor.…
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Linda becomes a full professor!
As of July 1st, Linda is a Professor of Network Neuroscience, with a focus on oncology. We celebrated the news at our heidag, and in our lab meeting the following day!
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Marieke conquers the Alpe d’Huez 3 times!
As a fervent athlete, Marieke set a very ambitious goal this June: to try and go up the Alpe d’Huez as many time as possible in the fundraising event organized by KWF. And after months of training, she managed to go up 3 times!!! We followed (or tried to follow… so many participants!) Marieke on…
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TN2 was a big success (again)
Many of us are part of the Translational Neuroscience Network (TN2) organizing team, and our event on May 28 was another one for the books. Read the full recap on the Amsterdam Neuroscience website!
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Eva gives a lightning talk at TN2
Eva’s abstract on her computational modeling project was selected for a presentation at the annual Translational Neuroscience Network event! She gave a broad, TED-like talk on how personalizing predictions on the outcomes of surgery is important. “We owe it to patients to give them personal predictions”.
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Opinion piece on translational medicine
Linda co-wrote an opinion piece for The Transmitter with co-PIs within the TRANSCEND consortium Klaus Eyer and Lara Keuck, shedding some light on why much of the research designed in labs does not make it to clinical care. Read it here! More info on TRANSCEND on the consortium website.
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We were at LWNO!
The annual scientific meeting of the Dutch association for neuro-oncology is a highlight of our year, in terms of sharing our own research, but also learning about what is happening across The Netherlands. Mona, Eva and Maxine presented their findings this year, and the rest of us enjoyed the other talks and the networking!
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Emma Saxton joins TRANSCEND & MULTINET
My name is Emma, and I am a PhD candidate in the MULTINET Lab. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the College of Wooster (Ohio, USA). For my honors thesis, I used EEG to investigate how external facial features influence recognition accuracy when viewing same-race and other-race faces. This work…
