Research on how proteins (mis)fold
Ineke Braakman receives €50,000 from the Dutch Cystic Fibrosis Patient organization (NCFS) to research the effect of intragenic modifiers on CFTR biosynthesis. Although CF is caused by a defect in only a single gene, CF patients with the same mutation in CFTR show significant variation in disease progression and response to therapy, such as the … Read more
Congratulations Bertrand on your new job! Bertrand will be leaving CPC after many wonderful years and continue his career in a different direction at our university. He will start a new job as educational manager of the new international bachelor Molecular & Biophysical Life Sciences (MBLS) which will start in September 2021. We wish Bertrand … Read more
Ineke Braakman recently turned 60. As a special treat she received the announcement for a (virtual) birthday meeting on 28th of January. Stefan organized a minisympoisum throught Zoom, with short talks and lots of discussion. Over a 100 people attended, lots of nice words were spoken about Ineke, and of course lots of science was … Read more
A warm welcome to our new colleague Senna Hiensch. Senna recently graduated from the HBO and has started in our lab as a technician. He will be working on several different projects, such as investigating mode-of-action of compounds on CFTR and pilot studies for other misfolding related diseases.
Congratulations to the new doctor! Dr. van Willigen! On September 9th Marcel van Willigen defended his thesis entitled “Uncovering CFTR folding through patient mutations” in the Akademiegebouw of University of Utrecht. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, only a very limited amount of people were allowed in the Akademiegebouw, and part of the committee had to dial … Read more