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PhD Students

Ana Laura Manzano Covarrubias

Ana Laura Manzano Covarrubias

My name is Ana Laura. I am from Mexico, where I did my bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). After completing my bachelor studies, I did my master degree in Molecular Medicine at the University of Sheffield in the UK. In 2022 I joined the Department of Molecular Pharmacology as a PhD candidate, focusing my research on understanding the molecular mechanisms of respiratory viruses and air pollution on the lung epithelium.

Qiwen Tang PhD student

Qiwen Tang

Qiwen Tang is a PhD student in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Groningen. She is from China and obtained her master’s degree in Clinical Medicine (Neurology) from Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, China. Her PhD projects focus on the impact of environmental factors on Parkinson’s disease.

Xiaoyu Wan PhD Student

Xiaoyu Wan

I am Xiaoyu Wan, a PhD student from China, working on the structural and functional characterization of viral proteins (Adenovirus and Herpes Simplex Virus 1).

MSc Students

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Merel Achterwuest

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Sylvia Cleodora

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Idris Pele

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Renske van Norel

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Rodina Darwish

Alessandra Tosato MSc students

Alessandra Tosato

My name is Alessandra Tosato and I come from Turin, Italy. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology in Italy, and now I am in my second year of the Master’s degree in Medical Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. 

I am working under the supervision of Karim for the second research project of the Master’s which focusses on investigating the double hit of Diesel Exhaust Particles and Human Adenovirus type C5 on adenocarcinomic human alveolar basal epithelial cells (A549).

BSc Students

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Jai Walia

Hi there! My name is Jai Walia, and I’m from Leeuwarden, a city in the north of the Netherlands. I am a fourth-year Biology & Medical Laboratory Research bachelor’s student at Van Hall Larenstein. Currently, I am working with Karim on researching a novel approach to targeting the E1B-19K protein produced by adenovirus.

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Pien Siermann

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Danté Bang A Foe

Previous Members

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Jan Wiese

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Maja van den Broek

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Kylan van Vliet

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Jon Rodriguez Villa

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Joëlle van Trigt

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Adriana Vega Zuza

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Rana Abdulkarim

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Vlad Bonaciu

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Lara van’t Hoff

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Lisanne de Valk

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Welcome Rodina Darwish! An Erasmus student visiting our lab.

We welcome Rodina Darwish, a visiting ERASMUS student from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Rodina will perform some exciting research in the lab during her three months stay...
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Welcome to Our New MSc and BSc Researchers!

It’s the time of the year again, when we welcome MSc and BSc students to our lab for their research projects. We are happy to welcome Merel Aechterwuest, Sylvia Cleodora, Idris Pele, Alessandra...
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Exciting News: ZonMW Off-Road Grant Awarded!

Some great news, we are excited to announce that we were awarded a ZonMW Off-Road grant to investigate developing small molecule drugs to be used in a combinatorial therapy with oncolytic human...
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Welcome Xiaoyu Wan, Our New PhD Student!

The lab is growing!!! We welcome Xiaoyu Wan to the group as the newest PhD student. Xiaoyu will work on some exciting research surrounding proteins from the human adenovirus C5 and herpes simplex...
Attending the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting with Our Team

Attending the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting with Our Team

Together with Maja, Joelle, Jon, and Kylan we attended the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting in Tiel. It was great that our MSc students were able to show off their exciting science in the form of a poster...
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