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.
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
