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Arnout Alberts MD, PhD
Resident Urology
After finishing my PhD in the field of MRI and risk-stratification in prostate cancer, I am currently a Urology trainee in the Erasmus MC and aim to do postdoctoral research in the field of renal cell carcinoma.
Els van Asselt
Researcher
My work concerns the innervation of the lower urinary tract. Animal models are used to study the overactive bladder, retention and incontinence.
Chris Bangma MD, PhD
Professor dept. Urology
Professor and Chairman of the department of Urology. Professional specialty: urologic oncology, prostate cancer, translational research
Sophie Berendsen MD
PhD-candidate
Member of the functional urology research group – focusing on clean intermittent catheterization and symptomatic urinary tract infections
Mirella van den Berg
Functie
Bertil Blok MD, PhD
Urologist
Joost Boormans MD, PhD
Urologist, Assistant Professor Urology
Research focus on translational research in urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and upper urinary tract. Clinical activities focus on the treatment of patients with bladder and testicular cancer with open and minimally invasive surgery.
Rosa Coolen MD
PhD-candidate
Member of the functional urology research group – focusing on treatment improvements for patients with non-obstructive urinary retention.
Marij Dinkelman-Smit MD, PhD
Urologist
Natasja Dits
Research technician
Involved in the research projects of professor Guido Jenster. My main focus at the moment is on extracellular vesicles.
Thomas van Doeveren MD
PhD-candidate
Research on the clinical and molecular aspects of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma and subsequent bladder carcinoma.
Gert Dohle MD, PhD
Urologist and clinical andrologist EAA
Head of andrology sector and education coordinator of urology. Scientific focus on early testicular development and the consequences of testiscular dysgenesis (Generation R project).
Tess van Doorn MD
PhD-candidate
Member of the functional urology research group – focusing on clinical improvement of pelvic dysfunction in neurogenic and non-neurogenic bladder patients.
Sigrun Erkens-Schulze
Research technician
My main expertise is prostate cancer cell culture, in addition to tissue slicing, histology and protein work.
Conja Franken-Raab
Data manager
Alberto Nakauma Gonzalez MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
My research applies computational techniques to unravel the molecular mechanisms of cancer development and evolution.
Jan Groen MD, PhD
As an urodynamicist, I research patients with bladder function disorders to contribute to their personalized treatment.
Jozien Helleman MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Project manager for multiple research projects on urological cancers.
Annelies van Hemelryk MD
PhD-candidate
My main focus lies on the development of prostate cancer organoids as a cornerstone for high-throughput drug screens (TransPot consortium).
Renée Hogenhout MD
PhD-candidate
Member of the Anser prostate researchteam, focusing on risk-stratified early detection of prostate cancer.
Youri Hoogstrate MSc, PhD
Post-Doc
Guido Jenster MSc, PhD
Professor Exp. Urology
Professor Experimental Urological Research. Supervising and mentoring prostate cancer research group.
Christiaan de Jong MD
PhD-candidate
Research focus on clinical, pathological, molecular and genomic markers associated with BCG-treatment failure in high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Joep de Jong BSc
PhD-candidate
Joep focuses on the clinical implementation of urine-based genomic assays and molecular subtypes of bladder cancer.
Kim van Kessel MD, PhD
Resident Urology
My aim is translational research, resulting in better diagnostics, prognostics and therapies for bladder cancer patients. Working at the interface of basic and clinical science, I completed my thesis: Personalized Bladder Cancer management, in October 2018.
Wim Kirkels MD, PhD
Urologist
Focusing on urogenital tumours and urinary diversion.
Henk Luiting MD
PhD-candidate
Focusing on the use of PSMA PET/CT and active surveillance (PRIAS) in patients with prostate cancer.
Elena Martens-Uzunova MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mathijs Mol MD
Resident Urology, PhD-candidate
Lisanne Mout MSc
PhD-candidate
My focus is improving current treatments for metastatic prostate cancer.
Daniel Osses MD
PhD-candidate
Currently focusing on screening, diagnostics, and active surveillance in prostate cancer including risk stratification and prostate MRI.
Sebastiaan Remmers MSc
Statistician, PhD-candidate
Statistician and PhD candidate involved with prostate cancer research, such as screening and risk stratification.
Job van Riet MSc, Phd
Post-Doc
Maud Rijnders MD
PhD-candidate
Monique Roobol MSc, PhD
Professor Decision making Urology
Together with my research group we aim to transform clinical and patient reported outcome data into easy-to-use prediction tools that will help patients and their caretakers in the many decisions they face during the patient’s journey.
Maaike den Rooijen MSc
Datamanager
As a datamanager I am involved in patient inclusion and data management of urological studies.
Eline Ruigrok MSc
PhD-candidate
Jeroen Scheepe MD, PhD
Pediatric urologist
Mathijs Scholtes MD
PhD-candidate
Marlies van Slooten-Midderigh
Data manager
Michelle van der Slot MD
PhD-candidate
Reseacher at Anser Prostate center – investigating whether centralization and intraoperative frozen sections lead to better outcomes and fewer complications after prostatectomy
Robert van Soest MD, PhD
Resident Urology
Lisette van 't Hoen MD, Phd
Resident Urology
Wilma Teubel, BSc
Head Research Technician
Head technician at the Experimental Urology department. Currently focusing on microfluidic devices to study mechanisms underlying prostate tumor cell migration to liver-organoids and bone-pellets to study and/or manipulate interaction.
Fred van der Toorn MD
Pediatric Urologist
Lionne Venderbos MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor decision making Urology
I dedicate my time to quality of life research through patient reported outcome data; it generates important information which professionals and patients can use in disease-specific decision-making.
Paul Verhagen MD, PhD
Urologist
Wytske van Weerden MSc, PhD
Associate professor
Striving to improve prostate cancer therapies using our unique set of patient-derived models.
Harmen van de Werken MD, PhD
Assistant Professor Computational Biology
Focusing on the development of new computational algorithms, analysis methods, artificial intelligence and visualization tools that interrogate and integrate big genomic and clinical data sets for better understanding of cancer development. Goal is to implement these innovations to improve patient treatment and their well-being.
Katja Wolffenbuttel MD
Pediatric Urologist
Tahlita Zuiverloon MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Urologist and Fellow Urological Oncology
Principal investigator at the Erasmus MC Urothelial Cancer Research Group with a focus on unraveling treatment resistance mechanisms in urothelial cancer and development of novel pre-clinical models (patient derived organoids, tissue slices).
Joke Veldhoven
Research technician
I am a research technician at the department of Experimental Urology in the group of professor Guido Jenster. Most of the projects I’m working on involve nanobody phage display.
Farbod Khoraminia MSc
PhD-Candidate
My research focuses on improving diagnosis and prognosis of HR-NMIBC patients treated with BCG, by using artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms for digital pathology.
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