Assistant Professor
Amsterdam UMC / CCA
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr Rachel Thijssen is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands and is an expert in targeted therapy resistance in blood cancer. She completed her PhD at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, and performed her postdoctoral studies at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on unravelling how haematopoietic cancer cells evade cell death, with a focus on venetoclax resistance in leukaemias using state-of-the-art techniques such as single-cell RNA-seq (CITE-seq) and single-cell long-read sequencing (Nanopore).
Sunday, October 8, 2023
11:50 AM – 12:05 PM EDT
