Marjon Troost-Roos PhD

Marjon Troost-RoosRegulatory affairs officer at Sanquin

Marjon Troost-Roos was born on November 6th 1975 in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands. Undergraduate education was received at the Christelijk Lyceum Arnhem and the Thomas a Kempis college in Arnhem in 1996. She studied biology (specialisation: pathology and physiology) at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. During her study she participated in two research projects. One concerned the tracking of CD4- and CD8-cell proliferation and apoptosis after stimulation using CFSE-labelling and flow cytometry. This research was performed at the department of transplantation biology of the University Hospital in Groningen.

The second research project was performed at the department of Physiology from the Universita' degli Studi di Parma in Italy. This project studied the effect of sleep deprivation on the stress response. From November 2001 until May 2006, she was a PhD student under supervision of prof.dr. Geert Jan Tangelder and prof.dr. Piet ter Wee at the Laboratory for Physiology of the VU University Medical Center. During this period she conducted the studies presented in this thesis. Her main interest was the renal microcirculation and diabetes mellitus type 1. Since December 2006 she holds a position as a regulatory affairs officer at Sanquin Plasma Products.

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Marjon Troost-Roos was one of the four speakers at PCDI's workshop about careers for PhDs at non-profit organisations on 29 January 2010. Read the workshop report to learn more about her work.