4.4 Research quality
Cum laude promotions
- Laura Kist de Ruijter’s thesis “Clinical insights into the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with cancer: studies on molecular imaging and the gut microbiome,” supervised by Prof. dr. E.G.E. de Vries, dr. R.S.N. Fehrmann and dr. S.F. Oosting, was awarded cum laude promotions for her PhD thesis. A portion of Kist de Ruijter’s thesis was published in Nature Medicine: Kist de Ruijter L, et al.Whole-body CD8+ T cell visualization before and during cancer immunotherapy: a phase 1/2 trial. Nat Med. 2022 Dec;28(12):2601-2610. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-02084-8.
- Isabelle van Zeventer’s thesis “Blood count abnormalities and evolution of clonal hematopoiesis,” supervised by Prof. Prof. dr. G.A.Huls, Prof. dr. J.H. Jansen (Radboud UMC) and dr. A.O. de Graaf (Radboud UMC), was awarded cum laude promotions for her PhD thesis. Van Zeventer completed her thesis in the MD/PhD program.