Vanessa van Harmelen Receives M.F.L.S. Education Award

June 8, 2026

Congratulations to Vanessa van Harmelen, Education Coordinator at the Department of Cell and Chemical Biology (CCB), LUMC, on receiving the M.F.L.S. award for Best Biomedical Sciences.

Vanessa van Harmelen Receives M.F.L.S. Education Award

This student-selected award recognizes excellence in education and reflects Vanessa's dedication to supporting high-quality teaching and learning within our department.

Vanessa teaches and coordinates the module Metabolisme in the first bachelor year.

Groups

Chemical Immunology - Neefjes lab

Studying the basis of the immune system, bacterial infections and anti-cancer drugs.
Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery - van der Heden & Mulder & Geurink labs

Profiling the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
Small Ubiquitin-like Modifiers - Vertegaal Lab

Uncovering signal transduction by SUMO
Chemical Signaling - ten Dijke lab

Cell-to-cell communication via secreted factors, transmembrane receptors and intracellular signal transducers
DNA Replication & Repair - Lamers Lab

Molecular mechanisms of high-fidelity DNA replication
Genome Editing - Goncalves & Mikkers Lab

Developing and integrating gene delivery and gene editing systems
Functional Genomics - Pang Lab

Profiling the non-coding genome
Cardiovascular Cell Biology - Goumans Lab

Where data science, virus and stem-cell biology is used to understand disease and develop therapeutics.
Diabetes Research - 't Hart & Zaldumbide Lab

Molecular mechanisms of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Electron microscopy research - Koster Lab

Cryo Electron Tomography and Artificial Intelligence methods
Molecular tumour genetics - Szuhai Lab

Molecular cytogenetics and functional characterization of bone and soft tissue tumours
Transcriptional Regulation - Baker lab
Virus Cell Interactions - Hoeben Lab

From innate sensing to oncolysis
Circadian Clocks - Meijer Lab

Investigating sleep regulation and sleep function
Near patient diagnostics - Corstjens Lab

High sensitivity diagnostic tools
RNA virus infection - Barcena Lab
Microbial Immunity - Loeff Lab

Uncovering microbial defense mechanisms through structural and biochemical approaches to reveal immunity principles and enable new biotechnological applications
Gribnau lab

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