Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam – OOA – Onderzoekschool Oncologie Amsterdam

133 Pages·2010·1.93 MB·English

Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam – OOA – Onderzoekschool Oncologie Amsterdam

Annual Report 2008
Address

Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam OOA
VU medisch centrum
Kamer CCA 3.36
De Boelelaan 1117
1081 HV Amsterdam

phone : [phone]
e-mail : [email protected]
website : www.ooa-graduateschool.nl

Contents

Preface 5

1
Management structure 9
2
General report 13
3
Educational activities 19
4
PhD research program 25
5
Awards 43

Annex 1 Faculty and staff 47
Annex 2 International visitors 59
Annex 3 PhD theses completed 63
Annex 4 Scientific publications 71

Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam OOA

preface

Preface

The mission of the Oncology Graduate School of new tools to evaluate the quality of life in
Amsterdam (Onderzoekschool Oncologie cancer patients. OOA organizes a range of
Amsterdam – OOA) is to educate graduate students educational activities, including specialized
in basic and clinical cancer research, and to ensure training courses, meet-the-expert sessions and an
proper supervision and mentoring of graduate annual graduate student retreat.
students in the Amsterdam region. OOA’s graduate
students are scientist-in-training who receive This report describes the activities and scientific
additional theoretical and practical education on output of OOA in 2008. It includes detailed listings
various subjects related to cancer. of our educational activities, such as training
programs, and an overview of the scientific output,
OOA is a joint venture of the Netherlands Cancer including listings of PhD theses completed and
Institute (Nederlands Kanker Instituut - NKI) and scientific papers published throughout the year
the medical faculties VU Medical Center (VUmc) 2008.
and Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC) of the Free
University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit - VU) and
the University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van
Amsterdam- UvA), respectively. These
organizations strive for excellence in research and
education in oncology, the realization of which is
promoted by their participation in OOA.

The OOA research program ranges from basic
molecular biology to clinical bedside research. It
includes, for instance, fundamental studies on Executive Directors,
cellular signal transduction and the control of gene
expression, but also clinical trials of new Prof.dr. G.A. Meijer (VU)
immunotherapeutic approaches and the Prof.dr. T.K. Sixma. (NKI)
development Prof.dr. J.P. Medema (UvA)

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board and organization