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Translational studies in Zellweger spectrum disorders
Berendse, K.
Publication date
2016
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Final published version
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Berendse, K. (2016). Translational studies in Zellweger spectrum disorders.
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Propositions accompanying the dissertation
“Translational studies in Zellweger spectrum disorders”
Kevin Berendse
1. The clinical spectrum of Zellweger spectrum disorders is much broader than originally assumed (This thesis)
2. Zellweger spectrum disorders should no longer be considered solely as a paediatric disease, but rather as a slowly progressive disease with patients surviving into adulthood (This thesis)
3. The cost versus benefit analysis in orphan drugs is absolutely disproportionate and will raise public concern on the orphan medicinal products and will question the orphan drug legislation in its present form (This thesis)
4. There is too little attention and money for research on rare diseases (This thesis) 5. International collaborations for orphan diseases are crucial (This thesis)
6. A Zellweger spectrum disorder cannot be excluded by biochemical testing in plasma alone (This thesis)
7. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid (Albert Einstein)
8. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them (Albert Einstein)
9. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field (Niels Bohr)
10. If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment (Ernest Rutherford)
11. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself (Galileo)
12. Ik sta bij het moment
