During this period of nearly ten months, I have worked on the identification and validation of genetic suppressors in the rare Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia under supervision of Bianca Gapp, PhD in the Penninger lab of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA). This project taught me several important lab skills, including the culture of iPSCs and haploid ESCs as well as data analysis of RNAseq and proteomics big data files. In addition, I could use well previously mastered skills in this project.

Nine months major research internship at the department of Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology of the UMC Utrecht under supervision of Simon Mastbergen and Mylène Jansen. This internship focuses on osteophyte formation and development in osteoarthritic knees treated with knee joint distraction. During the internship, I have learned valuable skills such as data analysis in clinical research, designing my own research project and carrying it out, and practical skills and techniques.

The research internship for my bachelor thesis has been supervised by Yael Reijmer of the VCI group in the UMC Utrecht. During my internship, I have examined the relationship between the location of cortical infarcts and cognitive impairment. I have learned many things, including how to perform a data study with patient data, examine MRI images and writing of both a review and primary article.