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Studentbeurzen Nederlandse Hartstichting 2022 Call for Proposals - Deadline 1 september 2023

Studentbeurzen Nederlandse Hartstichting 2022 Call for Proposals - Deadline 1 september 2023

11 May 2023

Binnen het dr. E. Dekker-programma voor persoonsgebonden beurzen stelt de Nederlandse Hartstichting per universiteit twee studentbeurzen beschikbaar. De beurs bedraagt maximaal € 3.000.

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Harry Crijns Research Grant - Deadline 17 september 2023

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25 April 2023

De Harry Crijns Research Grant, in het leven geroepen door het Hart en vaat onderzoekfonds Limburg, in te stelle wordt periodiek toegekend aan jonge wetenschappers die zich bezighouden met klinisch cardiovasculair onderzoek en daarmee bijdragen aan de realisering van de doelstellingen van de foundation.

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Carim Maastricht
Carim Maastricht

Tilman Hackeng

Professor

Prof. Tilman Hackeng studied biochemistry at the University of Utrecht and obtained his PhD at the same University in 1993 on protein C/protein S anticoagulant mechanisms. Shortly after, he left for The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA, were he worked on translational chemistry in the laboratories of Molecular and Experimental Medicine and Cell Biology.

In 1998, he returned to the Netherlands as a Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) at the Department of Biochemistry of the University Maastricht. He is past president of the Netherlands Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (NVTH), and elected member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). In addition, he is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Thrombosis Foundation, acts as reviewer for major journals in the Thrombosis & Haemostasis and Chemistry fields and serves on grant reviewing boards of national and international granting agencies. Currently he is chairman of the Department of Biochemistry of the University Maastricht and Scientific Director of CARIM. He is co-founder of ACS Biomarker BV and Coagulation Profile BV.

His research on chemistry and structure function relationships of blood coagulation proteins explores the involvement of blood coagulation proteins in developing cardiovascular disease. With an emphasis on anticoagulant regulatory pathways, a multidisciplinary approach is used in unraveling functional properties of proteins involved in the regulation of thrombin formation. Functional impairments of coagulation proteins can lead to development of venous and arterial thrombosis, and a fundamental understanding of inter-protein and protein-vessel wall interactions is a prerequisite for understanding how anticoagulant proteins work in preventing thrombosis. A broad technology platform is applied to this programme, from automated thrombin generation, total chemical synthesis of proteins, to NMR protein structural analysis and development of clinical assays. Additional research programmes performed in his laboratory for total chemical protein synthesis comprise several research lines and collaborations in the field of haemostasis and thrombosis, cancer, targeted molecular imaging and synthetic vaccines. Multimodal and multivalent constructs are applied as molecular imaging agents in vitro and in vivo for the targeting and MRI, SPECT, and PET imaging of thrombosis, atherosclerosis and angiogenesis and further developed within Maastricht Imaging Valley under the evolving discipline of translational cardiovascular chemistry.

Tilman-hackeng

Department of Biochemistry
Universiteitsingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
Room number: 4.366
T: +31 (0)43 388 1674/1766

  • 2023
    • Yao, T. Y., Chen, H. L., Wang, R., Rivero, R., Wang, F. Y., Kessels, L., Agten, S. M., Hackeng, T. M., Wolfs, T. G. A. M., Fan, D. D., Baker, M. B., & Moroni, L. (2023). Thiol-ene conjugation of a VEGF peptide to electrospun scaffolds for potential applications in angiogenesis. Bioactive Materials, 20, 306-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.05.029
    • Thomassen, M. C. L. G. D., Bouwens, B. R. C., Wichapong, K., Suylen, D. P., Bouwman, F. G., Hackeng, T. M., & Koenen, R. R. (2023). Protein arginine deiminase 4 inactivates tissue factor pathway inhibitor-alpha by enzymatic modification of functional arginine residues. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtha.2023.01.017
  • 2022
    • Kemp, J. A., Alvarenga, L., Cardozo, L. F. M. F., Dai, L., Stenvinkel, P., Shiels, P. G., Hackeng, T. M., Schurgers, L. J., & Mafra, D. (2022). Dysbiosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Let Us Talk About Vitamin K. Current nutrition reports, 11(4), 765-779. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13668-022-00438-9
    • van de Berg, T. W., Mulder, M. M. G., Alnima, T., Nagy, M., van Oerle, R., Beckers, E. A. M., Hackeng, T. M., Hulshof, A. M., Sels, J. W. E. M., Henskens, Y. M. C., van der Horst, I. C. C., ten Cate, H., Spronk, H. M. H., van Bussel, B. C. T., & Dutch COVID & Thrombosis Coalition (2022). Serial thrombin generation and exploration of alternative anticoagulants in critically ill COVID-19 patients: Observations from Maastricht Intensive Care COVID Cohort. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 9, [929284]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.929284
    • van den Kerkhof, D. L., Nagy, M., Wichapong, K., Brouns, S. L. N., Suylen, D. P. L., Hackeng, T. M., & Dijkgraaf, I. (2022). Unraveling the role of the homoarginine residue in antiplatelet drug eptifibatide in binding to the αIIbβ3 integrin receptor. Thrombosis Research, 217, 96-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.thromres.2022.07.011
    • Blanas, A., Karsjens, H., de Ligt, A., Huijbers, E. J. M., van Loon, K., Denisov, S., Durukan, C., Engbersen, D., Groen, J., Hennig, S., Hackeng, T., van Beijnum, J. R., & Griffioen, A. W. (2022). Vaccination with a bacterial peptide conjugated to SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain accelerates immunity and protects against COVID-19. iScience, 25(8), [104719]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104719
    • Sedzro, J. C., Adam, F., Auditeau, C., Bianchini, E., De Carvalho, A., Peyron, I., Daramé, S., Gandrille, S., Thomassen, S., Hackeng, T. M., Christophe, O. D., Lenting, P. J., Denis, C. V., Borgel, D., & Saller, F. (2022). Antithrombotic potential of a single-domain antibody enhancing the activated protein C-cofactor activity of protein S. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 20(7), 1653-1664. https://doi.org/10.1111/jth.15736
    • Dickhout, A., van de Vijver, P., Bitsch, N., van Hoof, S. J., Thomassen, S. L. G. D., Massberg, S., Timmerman, P., Verhaegen, F., Koenen, R. R., Dijkgraaf, I., & Hackeng, T. M. (2022). Molecular Detection of Venous Thrombosis in Mouse Models Using SPECT/CT. Biomolecules, 12(6), [829]. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12060829
    • van Beijnum, J. R., Huijbers, E. J. M., van Loon, K., Blanas, A., Akbari, P., Roos, A., Wong, T. J., Denisov, S. S., Hackeng, T. M., Jimenez, C. R., Nowak-Sliwinska, P., & Griffioen, A. W. (2022). Extracellular vimentin mimics VEGF and is a target for anti-angiogenic immunotherapy. Nature Communications, 13(1), [2842]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30063-7
    • Leberzammer, J., Agten, S. M., Blanchet, X., Duan, R., Ippel, H., Megens, R. T. A., Schulz, C., Aslani, M., Duchene, J., Döring, Y., Jooss, N. J., Zhang, P., Brandl, R., Stark, K., Siess, W., Jurk, K., Heemskerk, J. W. M., Hackeng, T. M., Mayo, K. H., ... von Hundelshausen, P. (2022). Targeting platelet-derived CXCL12 impedes arterial thrombosis. Blood, 139(17), 2691-2705. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2020010140
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