MDS Europe - Radboud University Medical Center

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit (Radboud University Medical Center)

The Radboud university medical center (RUMC) strives to have ‘a significant impact on healthcare’. Key strengths are to combine patient care, research and education to develop and improve innovative, sustainable, and affordable healthcare, and the well-recognised Nijmegen Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, with an impressive infrastructure for medical life-sciences. Expertise in biomedical, translational and clinical research of the departments Haematology, Laboratory of Haematology, and Tumor Immunology (which is a world leading research group in the field of cancer immunology) are combined in the MDS-RIGHT project. The Department of Haematology has a long-standing research tradition in MDS, and is a Centre of Excellence of the International MDS Foundation. It has a large clinical Trial Coordination and Data Centre, which has managed and facilitated national and international clinical studies and projects, including the EUMDS registry established in 2007.

Our team

Photographer: Puur Pulles Fotografie

Prof. Theo de Witte, MD - MDS-RIGHT Project Coordinator

Prof de Witte led the Haematology department from 1990 to 2009. He has been and still is active in many national and international scientific boards. Amongst others, he is a board member of the international MDS foundation, member of the Steering Committee of the European LeukemiaNet Foundation and coordinator of Work Package 8 (MDS) of the European LeukemiaNet. He is the chief investigator and project leader of the EUMDS Registry and coordinator of the MDS-RIGHT project.

Prof. Dr. Joop Jansen - MDS-RIGHT Principal investigator

Prof. Jansen is head of the Laboratory of Haematology and holds the chair of experimental haematology. His specific expertise and of his research group includes molecular biology and mutational landscapes in MDS. He is work package leader of WP2 within MDS-RIGHT, focussing on diagnostics and bio-informatics.

Dr. Corine van Marrewijk - MDS-RIGHT Project Manager

Corine van Marrewijk is an epidemiologist with extensive experience in clinical research and health technology. She is project manager of the EUMDS Registry and the MDS-RIGHT project. Together with Prof. De Witte and Rosalie Lubbers, she takes care of the central management of these two international projects, and acquisition. Her responsibilities in MDS-RIGHT are the day-to-day execution of tasks within the project, including administrative, financial and contractual obligations, the coordination of the consortium, and reporting to the European Commission.

Dr. Bert van der Reijden - MDS-RIGHT Principal Investigator

Dr Van der Reijden is a senior staff member of the Laboratory of Haematology. He is chair of MODHEM, a Dutch foundation dedicated to Molecular Diagnostics for Haematological Malignancies. His current activities and research focus on the pathogenesis of myeloid malignancies and inherited bleeding disorders. In MDS-RIGHT he works on molecular and clinical MDS data integration and the detection of molecular clonal haematopoiesis preceding MDS.

Dr. Aniek de Graaf

Aniek de Graaf is a molecular biologist and clinical chemist working in the Laboratory of Haematology, where she is primarily involved in molecular diagnostics. Her main focus in the MDS-RIGHT project is mutational screening of patient samples using Next Generation Sequencing techniques.

Dr. Saskia Langemeijer

Dr Langemeijer is Internist-Haematologist and senior staff member of the department Haematology. Her current clinical and research activities focus on myeloid malignancies and bone marrow failure. She is the Dutch principle investigator of the EUMDS Registry and participant in MDS-RIGHT.

Rosalie Lubbers, MSc - MDS-RIGHT Project Officer

Rosalie Lubbers is a biomedical scientist who is experienced in laboratory research in the field of immunology. She is a member of the overall project management team of MDS-RIGHT and the EUMDS Registry. She takes care of day-to-day tasks within the project, which include tasks related to sample collection and transfer, communication with participating countries and hospitals, website management and administrative tasks.

Els Meeuwsen, PhD - Monitor

Els Meeuwsen is a health scientist working at the Radboudumc Technology Center Clinical Studies department. Her responsibilities are to monitor the overall quality of the Registry data. In addition, she will support and advise study centres about the implementation of the new study protocol and about organizing patient care in the best possible way so that collected data is as complete as possible.

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