Dr. Johanna Veldman received her PhD after defending her thesis “The interplay between CD4 T cells and tumor cells in Hodgkin lymphoma”.  Johanna worked in a team guided by Dr. Lydia Visser, Dr. Arjan Diepstra and Prof. Anke van den Berg. In December 2021, She now works in the lab of  Daniel Peeper at the Netherlands Cancer Institute as a Postdoctoral fellow trying to better understand the crosstalk between T cells and tumor cells to find rationale treatment strategies.

Dr. Geok Wee Tan received her PhD after defending her thesis “Epstein-Barr virus-associated malignancies”.  Dr. Tan who worked in a team guided by former lab member Dr. Lu Ping Tan who has her own lab in the Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dr. Arjan Diepstra and Prof. Anke van den Berg. She will continue her scientific career in Malyasia.

“ON THE ROAD TO EXCELLENCE IN UNRAVELLING THE (EPI)GENETIC LANDSCAPE OF HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS” (http://www.nextlevel-h2020.eu/), a consortium between the Institute of Human Genetics (Poznań, Maciej Giefing), UGhent (Pieter van de Vlierberge), UULM (Reiner Siebert) and the LRG of the UMCG (Anke van den Berg, Lydia Visser en Joost Kluiver)

Dr. Fubiao Niu received his PhD after defending his thesis “The roles of noncoding RNAs in B-cell lymphomas”. Dr. Niu who worked in a team guided by Dr. Joost Kluiver and Prof. Anke van den Berg, will continue his scientific career as a postdoc in Bejing, China.

Johanna Veldman presented on “Rosetting T-cells in Hodgkin Lymphoma”, and Dr. Diepstra presented on “Cell-type specific eQTL and HLA”.

The project is in close collaboration with the Radboud MC, Erasmus MC and the Amsterdam UMC. In Groningen, Rotterdam and Amsterdam patients will be treated with CAR T-cells generated in Groningen. For further reading see here and here (in Dutch).

In total they were able to donate the fantastic amount of 1800 euro. The money will be used to study the role of an important network of molecules that can regulate the proliferation of lymphoma cells.