Medical/Biomedical Sciences

Puck Knipscheer

2020-04-22T15:13:24+02:00

Puck Knipscheer received the Heineken Young Scientists Award for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2010 for her research at the interface of biochemistry and molecular cell biology.
Her PhD research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute has generated important new insights into the way that protein activity is regulated in cells. As a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, Puck Knipscheer studied how the genes responsible for Fanconi anaemia (a genetic disease that leads to bone marrow failure and in many cases to cancer) are involved in repairing damage to DNA. She will be establishing a research group at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht in late 2010.

Menno van Zelm

2020-04-22T15:13:03+02:00

Dr Menno van Zelm received the Heineken Young Scientists Award for Medicine 2010 for his research on the cellular and molecular mechanisms that cause antibody deficiencies, i.e. serious immune system disorders.
His research is important for our understanding of immune disorders, how the body fights infection, and what causes inflammatory diseases and serious bone marrow and lymph node disorders. Menno van Zelm works at Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam.

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