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Renal heparan sulfate proteoglycans
Talsma, Ditmer Tjitze
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Ditmer Talsma was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, on the 7th of
September (28) as son of Lucas Talsma and Houkje Rijpstra. After finishing high school in 2007 at Piter Jelles Aldlân in Leeuwarden, he studied Life Sciences & Technology at the University of Groningen, with a major in Biomedical Scienc-es and a minor in Psychology. After finishing his bachelor he continued with his master in Biomedical Sciences, which included a 7 month internship at the de-partment of Experimental Nephrology. Under supervision of Kiran Katta and dr. Jaap van den Born he studied the effect of non anti-coagulant heparin derivatives in transplantation. During this year Ditmer decided to apply for the zij-instroom geneeskunde, a shortcut to medicine in which the bachelor is completed in 1 year. After finishing the bachelor of medicine, he started his medical scientific internship under supervision of dr. Jaap van den Born to finish the first two publi-cations with which he started during his master Biomedical Sciences. With these manuscripts submitted he applied for the MD/PhD program, organized by the Junior scientific masterclass.
He started his MD/PhD trajectory in 2014 in the UMCG under supervi-sion of prof. dr. Coen Stegeman, prof. dr. Moh Daha, dr. Jaap van den Born and dr. Marc Seelen on the role of renal heparan sulfates in leukocyte transmigration and glycan treatment strategies in renal inflammatory disease. As is common in the MD/PhD program Ditmer combined the research with his clinical internships. He did his M2 clinical internships in the Medical Center Leeuwarden and finished the second year of the medical master with an internship in the Luis Felipe Moncada hospital in San Carlos, Nicaragua. After deciding to pursue a career in surgery he did his M3 internship at the department of General Surgery and Plastic Surgery at the Martini hospital in Groningen. Ditmer is currently working as physician assistant at the department of General Surgery at the Medisch Spectrum Twente and wants to become a physician in training in surgery in the near future.
