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With a great symposium entiteld “Journey of a lifetime” and valedictory lecture “t grote niet weerd" last Friday, a passionate researcher and pioneer of the RIMLS (NCMLS), said farewell.
Bé Wieringa (Delfzijl, 1951) studied Chemistry at the University of Groningen, where he also did his PhD on genes and mRNAs of chicken yolk proteins (with Prof. M. Gruber). He moved to the ETH in Zürich for a postdoc in Charles Weissmann's lab on Globin RNA splicing. In 1984, he joined the Human Genetics department at Radboud University and started his life-long work on disease mechanisms underlying myotonic dystrophy. He was appointed professor in Cell Biology in 1990 and became head of the department of Cell Biology. During his appointment, he supervised more than 40 PhD candidates. Bé Wieringa initiated the generation of mouse models for human diseases, using gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells, in Nijmegen and was one of the co-founders of the RIMLS (NCMLS at the time).
We thank Bé wholeheartedly for his seminal contributions to science and education, and his dedication to the local, national and international academic community. We wish him all the best for the future to come.
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