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28 January 2019
In 2018 Siroon obtained a Rubicon grant with her project: Young and obese: does inflammation cause the earlier onset of cardiovascular disease? For this project Siroon is now living in Australia and working at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (Department of Internal Medicine).
About her stay in Australia you can follow her vlog, which she has made for NWO.
Siroon Bekkering, theme Vascular damage, obtained a Dekker grant (209k euro) of the Dutch Heart Foundation. This competitive grant allows Siroon to perform her project 'Trained innate immunity at the level of bone marrow progenitors as driver of atherosclerosis development'.
In 2018 Siroon obtained a Rubicon grant with her project: Young and obese: does inflammation cause the earlier onset of cardiovascular disease? For this project Siroon is now living in Australia and working at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (Department of Internal Medicine).
About her stay in Australia you can follow her vlog, which she has made for NWO.
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