Toxicogenomics and Drug Monitoring

Biography

N L Reynaert received her PhD cum laude in 2006 from Maastricht University on research performed in the laboratory of Prof. Janssen-Heininger at the University of Vermont, USA. She received funding from the Dutch Lung Foundation and received a prestigious personal grant from the Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research. She is the recipient of multiple awards from the European Respiratory Society and the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine. In 2003 she performed a sponsored fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Brightling at the University of Leicester, UK. At the Maastricht University Medical Centre she supervises multiple PhD projects on the topics of COPD and silicosis with an emphasis on inflammation, ageing and matrix remodeling. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals.

Abstract

Abstract : Insights into pathogenic mechanisms of crystalline silica by profiling the acute response of lung epithelial cells – Focus on inflammasome activation in vitro and in vivo