Early Stage Researcher: Katharina Herzog, Academic Medical Centre at the University of Amsterdam

Work place		Home country
Netherlands		Germany

The title of Katharina’s project: Improved diagnostics and therapeutic leads for peroxisomal disorders

Katharina will focus on the improvement of diagnostic methods for patients with peroxisomal defects. She will identify biomarkers (in collaboration with MDiscoveries) for these defects and assess the in vitro effects and efficacy of different putative therapeutic approaches. This includes leads for novel therapeutic approaches that will emerge from other PhD projects in this ITN. Part of the research will be performed at the University of Exeter and MDiscoveries (Potsdam).

Supervisor: Dr. Hans R. Waterham (h.r.waterham@amc.uva.nl)

Co-Supervisor: Dr. Nicolas Schauer, MDiscoveries, Potsdam

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES:

Poster presentations:

PERFUME Kick-off conference in Groningen (The Netherlands), 2.-4.12.2013, poster title: “Biomarker Discovery and Improved diagnostics for peroxisomal disorders”

Marie Sk³odowska-Curie conference: ESOF 2014 in Copenhagen (Denmark), 19.-20.06.2014, poster title: “Biomarker Discovery and Improved diagnostics for peroxisomal disorders”

Oral presentations: 

Sixth annual Amsterdam Center of Metabolism/Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases (ACM/MDL) PhD student meeting in Lunteren (The Netherlands), 10.-11.03.2014, presentation title: ”Improved diagnostics for peroxisomal disorders”

OEMP2014 conference in Neuss (Germany), 9.-11.9.2014, presentation title: ”Improved diagnostics for peroxisomal disorders”

For further information and interest, please contact:

Katharina Herzog

Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases

Academic Medical Center

Meibergdreef 9

1105 AZ Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Email: k.herzog@amc.nl

Phone: +31 2056 66039