Royal visit ánd Digital Life at Muscles2Meet
13-06-2022
Anne Marleen Olthof, teacher of Immersive Design (VR/AR/MR) at the Communication and Multimedia Design program at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), will start her PhD research in the field of Human-System Integration in September this year. She is supervised from the AUAS by Somaya Ben Allouch, lecturer in the Digital Life research group.
Muscles2Meet
In the context of this PhD, Anne Marleen Olthof attended Muscles2Meet 2022 on 10 and 11 June , a biennial symposium for PhD students working on neuromuscular diseases in the Netherlands.
In a short time she got to know a very inspiring group of lab and clinical PhD researchers from LUMC, Amsterdam UMC, Erasmus MC and Radboud MC. This may lead to further collaboration during her PhD. Muscles2Meet is an initiative of the Princess Beatrix Muscle Fund, in collaboration with the Spier Diseases Centre of the Netherlands.
Anne Marleen took part in various interesting lectures, for example about:
- 'RNA therapy & neuromuscular disease' (by Prof. Dr. Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, LUMC),
- 'Trial Readiness' (by Filip Eftimov MD (Amsterdam UMC), and
- 'Big Data in muscle research' (by Prof. Peter-Bram 't Hoen, Radboudumc).
Princess Beatrix Spierfonds
For Anne Marleen Olthof, this was her first symposium as a PhD researcher, to which she attached great importance from a personal point of view. She herself says: 'It was important for me to reconnect with my personal history with the Princess Beatrix Fund and to be on the same page with PhD students and Princess Beatrix.'