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Danielle Curfs PhD

Programme manager at BMM

Daniëlle Curfs (born 1976) obtained her MSc in Environmental Health Sciences in 2000 at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. In 2004 she obtained her PhD in Life Sciences and Health (Departments of Health Risk Analysis & Toxicology and Pathology, University of Maastricht) specialising in the role of environmental carcinogens in atherogenesis.

She worked as a postdoctoral fellow on the development of fast screening methods for target genes in atherosclerosis and studied the role of macrophages in inflammation and atherosclerosis (Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Maastricht). She obtained certificates for the courses Immune Toxicology and Medical & Forensic Toxicology of the postdoctoral registration in Toxicology. She was in the organising committee of the Annual Meeting of the Dutch Toxicology Society in 2002. Dr. Curfs supervised several MSc students and has a dozen publications in internationally refereed journals.

In 2009 she started working at the BioMedical Materials (BMM) Program. She is currently involved in coordinating the cardiovascular and nephrology research projects of BMM. Next to her position in programme coordination she acts as the communication manager for BMM.

 

Danielle Curfs participated the roundtable-discussion of PCDI's Postdoc Retreat 2010.