nina fransen

pathology resident

About

PhD Candidate Neuroimmunology at Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Country

netherlands

City

amsterdam

Industry

research

Skill

research, science, medicine, fluorescence microscopy, spss, microscopy, in vivo, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, dutch

Experience

pathology resident

umc utrecht

2020-4 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

medical student

university of amsterdam

2007-9 - 2014-4 · 6 yrs 8 mos

verzorgende

cordaan thuiszorg

2010-10 - 2014-1 · 3 yrs 4 mos

anios neurologie

olvg

2014-4 - 2015-5 · 1 yr 2 mos

working as neurology resident

research intern at neurology department

amc

2010-6 - 2011-8 · 1 yr 3 mos

* Performed different research projects in the field of neurodegeneration. * Studied incidence of apathy in community dwelling elderly and its association with cardiovascular riskfactors. * Supervisor: prof. dr. W.A. van Gool and dr. S.A. Lighthart * Publication: Association of vascular factors with apathy in community-dwelling elderly individuals, Archives of general psychiatry, June 2012 * Studied incidence and clinical presentation of inherited prion disease in the Netherlands. * Supervisor: prof. dr. W.A. van Gool * Publication: Hereditary priondiseases in the Netherlands: clinical presentation, incidence and those at risk, tijdschrift voor Neurologie en Neurochirurgie, march 2012. * Studied the role of cortisol in the pathofysiology of post-operative delirium. * Supervisor: prof. dr. W.A. van Gool and dr. J. Witlox

research intern neuroimmunology

university of southampton

2011-9 - 2011-12 · 4 mos

* Studied microglia proliferation in chronic neurodegeneration. * Supervisor: prof. dr. V.H. Perry and dr. D. Gomez-Nicola * Techniques: Immunohistochemistry and qPCR * Publications: Regulation of microglial proliferation during chronic neurodegeneration, Journal of Neuroscience, February 2013

phd candidate neuroimmunology

netherlands institute for neuroscience

2015-5 - Present · 11 yrs 5 mos

Study the pathological heterogeneity of Multiple Sclerosis in MS autopsy cohort of the Netherlands Brainbank in relation with clinical and genetic data. Supervisors: dr. I. Huitinga and dr. S. Luchetti Publication: Progressive multiple sclerosis patients show substantial lesion activity that correlates with clinical disease severity and sex: a retrospective autopsy cohort analysis. Luchetti S, Fransen, NL et.al. (shared first authorship), Acta Neuropathologica, 2018