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15 September 2017

Markus Loeven of the department of Nephrology (group Johan van der Vlag), theme Renal disorders, has won the best poster award of the 16th European Meeting on Complement in Human Disease that was held in Copenhagen.

His poster “Heparan sulfate-modifying enzymes differentially determine factor H/factor H-related protein binding to glomerular endothelial cells” was selected as the best from more than 200 posters presented.

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Markus Loeven            Johan van der Vlag
 

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