Curriculum Vitae 295 A Curriculum Vitae Karlijn Hummelink was born on the 10th of January 1990 in Lichtenvoorde, the Netherlands. After graduating from Atheneum at the Marianum College in Groenlo in 2008, she started medical school at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. Her interest in pathology was sparked in 2012 during a scientific internship at the molecular neuropathology laboratory led by Professor Kenneth Aldape at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, USA. Throughout this internship, she conducted fundamental laboratory research focusing on the proneural to mesenchymal transition in glioblastoma. After obtaining her medical degree in October 2015, she started working as a pathology resident not in training at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. In January 2017, she started on her PhD trajectory, aiming to identify biomarkers for clinical benefit to immune checkpoint blockade in advancedstage non-small cell lung cancer. Under the supervision of Professor Gerrit Meijer (Pathology department, NKI) and Professor Egbert Smit (Thoracic Oncology, NKI), along with co-promotors Dr. Kim Monkhorst (Pathology department, NKI) and Dr. Daniela Thommen (Division of Molecular Oncology and Immunology, NKI), this endeavor resulted in the research presented in this thesis. During her PhD, she received a travel grant from the Nijbakker Morra stichting, enabling her to visit the genomics laboratory of Professor Victor Velculescu at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA in 2018. Currently, Karlijn resides in Amsterdam and has been working as a resident in pathology at Amsterdam UMC since July 2021
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