On the 15th of October Dr Johanna Bult received her PhD degree after defending her thesis titled “Drivers of B-cell lymphoma”. Johanna was guided by a team consisting of Dr Marcel Nijland, Dr. Mirian Brink, Prof Edwin Bremer and Prof Anke van den Berg. As a next step in her career, Johanna will soon start a specialization as medical doctor.

On July 10th Dr Yujie Zhong received her PhD degree after defending her thesis titled “Circulating Tumor DNA in Aggressive B-Cell Lymphomas: Tumor Cell Characterization and Disease Dynamics”. Yujie was guided by a team consisting of Dr Marcel Nijland, Dr Wouter Plattel, Prof Arjan Diepstra and Prof Anke van den Berg. As a next step in her career, Yujie recently accepted a job as a postdoc in China.

On December 6th Anke van den Berg was invited by the Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap (KNG) to lecture on this years Nobel prize winners in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for “the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”. Her lecture can be viewed here (in Dutch).