Working environment
The PhD student will be working within the department of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis of the UMCG. The research will be embedded within the Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), a multidisciplinary and highly translational research institute performing fundamental and applied patient-related research with the aim to unravel underlying mechanisms of the development and progression of lung diseases, including asthma, COPD and pulmonary fibrosis.
The project is part of a national consortium, where there will be close collaboration with the department of Cardiothoracic Surgery (dr. Erasmus) and Pathology & Medical Biology (Prof. dr. Heijink, Prof. dr. Brandsma and Prof. dr. Nawijn), and laboratory of Experimental Pulmonology and Inflammation Research (EXPIRE). Within these departments multiple renowned research groups work on pathophysiological damage and repair processes, using translational and multi-omic approaches (transcriptomics e.g. single cell RNA sequencing, proteomics etc), and state-of-the-art cellular and molecular techniques, to obtain insights into novel therapeutic strategies. In addition there will be a close collaboration with the consortium partners from University of Groningen (Prof. dr. Gosens), Twente University (Prof. dr. Leijten and Prof. dr. Prakash) and University Medical Center Leiden (Dr. van der Does, Prof dr. Hiemstra and Prof. dr. J.J. Zwaginga).