Esther Lutgens (34), Associate Professor of Pathology, has been appointed Established Investigator by the Netherlands Heart Foundation (NHS). Every two years the NHS awards a five-year stipendium to stimulate developing the research groups of established researchers. In this way the Established Investigator will be able to further strengthen his/her research.
Esther Lutgens works both at CARIM (Theme III, program Markers and Makers) and the Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research (IMCAR) in Aachen, Germany. She studies the role of co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory factors in atherosclerosis and focuses on the cell-type specific actions and signal transduction cascades that are involved in the different stages of its pathogenesis.
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