by Christina | Jul 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
This month two of our DCs have been undertaking outreach activities to high school students at two schools in Germany. Martje Grensemann DC1 explains more: “Last week, I visited my former high school, Gymnasium am Mühlenberg in Bad Schwartau, and gave a full-day...
by Christina | Jun 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
This week five of our DCs, Ann-Engelke, Lena, Aurora, Giulia and Martje, share their experience of attending the School of the Dutch Kidney Foundation in Soesterberg NL on 16-18th June. The Summer School is an intensive course designed for early-career kidney...
by Christina | Jun 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
What have our PhD students been up to? The 48th Europe Cystic Fibrosis Conference was held for 3 – 7 June 2025, in Milan, Italy. From the ORGESTRA community, two PhD students, Jorge Madrid Paredes (DC13) and Woosub Shin (DC12), and two PIs, Kors van der Ent and...
by Christina | May 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
This month ORGESTRA supports Cystic Fibrosis Awareness by highlighting the umet need and the advances in personalised medicine that the project aims to contribute to. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Thanks to DC7 Mark Leahy for preparing...
by Christina | May 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
What is Cystinosis? Cystinosis is a rare genetic disease that affects about 1 in 100,000 to 200,000 people worldwide. It is caused by a mutation in a gene called CTNS, which provides instructions for making a protein called cystinosin. This protein’s job is to remove...
