At the 2018 edition of the Dutch Endocrine Meeting (DEM), organized by the Dutch Society for Endocrinology on 25 and 26 January, several contributions of RIMLS researchers were highly appraised and gifted with awards.
Manon Engels, PhD candidate theme Vascular damage, under the supervision of pediatric endocrinologist Hedi Claahsen – van der Grinten, Fred Sweep and Paul Span, received the award for best clinical abstract that was entitled: “Gonadal function in adult male patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.” The accompanying manuscript was recently published in the “European Journal of Endocrinology”: DOI: 10.1530/EJE-17-0862. In addition, PhD candidate Anouk van Berkel, theme Vascular damage, supervised by Henri Timmers was elected as runner-up in second place for her clinical abstract “Metabolic subtyping of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma by 18F-FDG pharmacokinetics using dynamic PET/CT scanning.”
Moreover, the prize for best basic science abstract has been awarded to Marika Tesselaar, PhD candidate theme Rare cancers, supervised by Theo Plantinga, Jan Smit and Romana Netea-Maier, entitled “Digoxin treatment induces tumor redifferentiation and augments radioactive iodide uptake in a mouse model of BrafV600E-induced thyroid cancer.”
Furthermore, the award for best clinical publication 2017 in the field of endocrinology was awarded to a RIMLS research group consisting of Theo Plantinga (photo), Jan Smit, Romana Netea-Maier, Peer Arts, Christian Gilissen and Alexander Hoischen for the publication “Rare NOX3 variants confer susceptibility to agranulocytosis during thyrostatic treatment of Graves’ disease.” that was published in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
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