Celina Szanto Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Involved in grant writing, collaborating with national and international stakeholders and supporting the running research projects.

“VAGABOND Validation of Actionable Genomic ABerrations in a paediatric Oncology Network for Doctorate students” aims to create a multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral program to validate new therapeutic interventions in paediatric cancer. The program is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network) and offers 15 fully funded PhD positions. The consortium is coordinated by the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology and consists of 12 academic and 6 non-academic partners from 8 European countries. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956285

PhD thesis: Immune monitoring in the context of hematopoietic cell transplantation in children Date of PhD award: Dec 2020 Supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. Alwin Huitema, Dr. Stefan Nierkens, Prof. Dr. Jaap Jan Boelens

Single-cell sequencing to study genomic instability in breast cancer and human cleavage-stage embryosI got the opportunity to present our work as a young investigator at the 15th annual meeting of the Belgium Society of Human Genetics in Charleroi.Van der Aa, N., Fernandez Gallardo, E., Szanto, C., Zamani Esteki, M., Kumar, P., Dimitriadou, E., Theunis, K., Debrock, S., De Neubourg, D., D'Hooghe, T., Vermeesch, J., Voet, T. (2015). Single-cell genome sequencing to characterize chromosome instability in human cleavage stage embryos. Abstract book. 15th Annual BeSHG Meeting Behaviour: Is it genetically determined?. Charleroi, Belgium, March 6 2015, 34-34, Abstract No. O11.

Leuven, Belgium

1. Laboratory of Experimental Psychology (studying bistable perception by performing psychophysical experiments)2. Laboratory of Pediatric Immunology (flow cytometry on blood and tumor samples of patients with HGGs)3. Nuclear Medicine, UZ Leuven (analysis of PET imaging data of patients with major depressive disorder)

Master'S Degree

Education record

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