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N.H.R. (Nicolle) Litjens, PhD

Postdoctoral researcher

  • Department
  • Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation
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About N.H.R. (Nicolle) Litjens, PhD

Introduction

Nicolle H.R. Litjens is an assistant professor at the Nephrology & Transplantation Laboratory of Erasmus Medical Center, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
She obtained her doctorate from Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands in 2004 and is acknowledged as an SMBWO-certified Immunologist by the Dutch Society for Immunology in 2006. She has over 15 years of biomedical research experience and supervised 6 PhD students, 3 of whom have already obtained their doctorate. 
She collaborates closely with Michiel G.H. Betjes, MD PhD (internist-nephrologist) and their research focusses on the prematurely aged T-cell immune system of kidney transplant recipients and unravelling the mechanisms by which anti-donor specific T-cell hypo-responsiveness develop after kidney transplantation in relation to ageing.
 

Field(s) of expertise

  • translational immunology in setting of kidney transplantation
  • T cell ageing

Education and career

  • 1993-1998 Health sciences, Biological Health Sciences at the University Maastricht
  • 1998-2004 PhD student at the department of Infectious Diseases, LUMC, Leiden.
  • 2004-current Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation
  • 2006 SMBWO acknowledged Immunologist
  • 2018 BKO certificate (Assistant Professor)

Publications

Teaching activities

  • Infection and Immunity Master
  • Minor Organ Transplantation
  • Guiding PhD students
  • Guiding students

Scholarships, grants, and awards

NTV Distinguished Research Award 2019