Novel thyroid specific transcripts identified by SAGE: implication for congenital
hypothyroidism
Moreno Navarro, J.C.
Publication date
2003
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Citation for published version (APA):
Moreno Navarro, J. C. (2003). Novel thyroid specific transcripts identified by SAGE:
implication for congenital hypothyroidism.
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Acknowledgements s
Acknowledgements s
Prof.Prof. Dr. JJM de Vijlder. Beste Jan, I deeply appreciated your support before and all
throughh these 5 years in the Netherlands My highest consideration for you, professionallyy and personally. I would be honored if I fulfilled your expectations
Dr.Dr. C. Ris-Stalpers. Beste Carrie, this race is coming to its end. Looking back, I feel I
learnedd a varied range of things in this period of time, of a very diverse nature. For a greatt deal, you are responsible for this growth, and I sincerely thank you.
Andd I want to thank colleagues
Att the Kinderendo lab
JanineJanine de Randamie, a treasure of delicacy found in the Netherlands. Please, continue
shiningg for us.
RemcoRemco Keijser, for his consistent good work and good mood displayed in the lab. Also
forr the "gezelligheid'' and complicity. Good luck with your studies at the university. Do go on! !
TruusTruus Veenboer closer to the project in recent times, it was rewarding to meet the
professionall and the person behind it.
HennieHennie Bikker, for the intense collaboration in parts of the project. Good luck in the
accomplishmentt of your professional perspectives.
MarcelaMarcela Jedllckova, first as student, then as colleague and friend. I enjoyed this
central-europeann flavour of your being.
JoséJosé Willemsen, Brenda Wiedijk. Manette de Jongh and Atie Buisman, whose work
resultss indispensable for ours to end up correctly.
Too the six students who participated with enthusiasm and dedication in my project, sharingg good and bad days: Marcela, Karen van Wessel, Noortje Schoenmakers, Satda
Aarrass,Aarrass, Manon Triebel and Anne Belonje. Thank you all.
Andd other students in different projects who contributed to maintain a good atmosphere inn the lab. Special mention to Gwendolyn Sijmons for her delicious food, Linda Kruiten forr her patience in busy times at the lab and Maimouna Akhmouch for her incredible sweetness. .
Too former colleagues, Marianne Cammenga for her participation in the project and Henk
off any kind. I wish you a brilliant career in research, wherever the place.
HannekeHanneke van Santen, sweet doctor, have strength for the combination of clinical training
andd research work! I look forward to seeing that smile at the defense of your thesis (reallyy soon).
MaartenMaarten Buimer. not in the room, but in the clinic. I hope you soon can also be the father
off a different type of son. made of cellulose and ink, which won't cry at night or call you
papa,papa, but will prevent you to sleep many nights, as the real ones.
IrisIris Wakelkamp. dear doctor you saved my life in a way different from the medical one. I
wishh to stay here to pay back ana see you around Good luck again with your "double" work. .
BehrouzBehrouz Zandieh Doulabi. always helpful, nice and discrete. Don't loose that
middle-easternn accent (I don't refer now to 'anguage....). Friend, good luck in the future'
DaphneDaphne Timmer, your research smells success. Good luck and concentration. Thanks
forr trying to control these strange movements (and noises) I tend to make with my hands.. My social life has improved a lot since then...(!).
IvoIvo Stoykov. the latest to arrive in the room, from Bulgaria. I wish you can discover all
secretss that the heart still contains for endocrinologists. This will take some time, but I'll checkk the medline regularly.
SimoneSimone van de Graat. Matkel Stulp and Leon Brokken, already gone but somehow still in
thee room. Good iuck in your new jobs.
Att the Pediatric Endocrinology clinic
Dr.Dr. T. Vulsma. Beste Tom. I deeply appreciated your generous share of endocrinological
knowledgee displayed during these years. I learned important lessons from you and I am thankful.. Since I cannot pay you back. I just promise, if the moment ever arrives, to handlee information in the same generous style of yours with others.
MarliesMarlies Kern pers, dear doctor, you are all warmth. Strength to tackle one's aims in life
whilee keeping sensitivity intact is a rare combination to find in people But here it is! And II like to see it everyday in you, my friend.
PaulPaul van Trotsenburg. busy doctor, you are next in the defense of your thesis. I wish you
Acknowledgements s
BertBert Bakker, already gone to (even) colder countries. I do not forget the role of Cicero in
thee AMC when I arrived from Spain, for what I thank you. I also want to recognize here yourr careful diagnosis and follow up performed for some PIOD patients in the AMC. which,, by mistake, was not acknowledged in our NEJM article. Dear Bert, best luck in yourr new professional life.
JeanetteJeanette Ridder. Susane Marres and Liesbeth van der Sluijs Veer, thank you for the
helpfull and dedicated work with children.
Att the Neonatology department
II sincerely thank Prof. Dr. Joke Kok and Drs. Aleid van Wassenaar and Bert Smit for theirr interest in my research, and to Prof. Dr. Janna Koppe for her kindness at the beginningg of my stay in the Netherlands.
Att the E n d o c r i n o l o g y department
II want to thank Prof. Dr. W. Wiersinga. Dr. M.F. Prummel and Dr. E. Fliers to share their deepp knowledge on Endocrinology in the common sessions with our department. Alsoo to Drs. E. Enders, O. Bakker and A. Boelen for the interest and collaborative approachh shown towards my work. Mieke. Joan, Cecilia and the colleagues that we will soonn meet in a day by day basis, when we will share close laboratory spaces in F2.
Att the laboratory of Neurozintuigen (K2)
II thank Prof. Dr. F. Baas for his interest and collaboration in my work and all the "bunch" off colleagues with whom many experiences were shared during the past years: Roos de
Jonge.Jonge. Jennifer Deekman. Marcel Kool. Ruud Wolterman. Rob Zwart. Carin Sijmons. AnneloorAnneloor ten Asbroek. Marcel Kwa, Kees Fluiter, Wiep Schiepen Nico Ponne. Cobie. Jeroen.Jeroen. Mia. Monique en Jules. I see you all as an orchestra, I don't know why. Good
luckk and a big hug to all of you.
Att the Bioinformatics laboratory
II thank Dr. A. van Kampen for his continued support and collaboration in my work and to memberss of his lab. like Lisa Gilhuijs-Pederson. for her interest in phylogenetics and her collaboration. .
Inn Spain
Too Dr. R. Barrio Castellanos, who lighted the flame of my interest in Endocrinology and encouragedd me to jump into the different world of basic research. I deeply thank you for thiss view.
transmissionn of knowledge as a responsibility of human generations, in order to make nextt ones better.
Too Prof. Dr. J. Argente. for his interest in my work and his support at critical moments of myy career.
Inn my heart
Manyy of the mentioned persons are in this place, whose exact location is difficult to define.. They are people that have suffered my down days in this difficult job. And they madee it for free. And this inconditionality of their iove moves me deeply at this moment. Myy father, a succesful businessman, but a man of Academy in his heart, who projected hishis efforts and hopes in his son and his career. A career that he would have liked to do andd circumstances wouldn't allow. You merit co-authorship for the things reached. And I knoww you are still around.
Myy mother, for the patient acceptance that the destiny of our targets of love can be locatedd far away. And I want to more-than-thank my two sisters. Isabel and Nuria. whose Spanishh voices sounded like heavens at the phone, so many times.
Myy friends in Spain, Jose Maria. Marisa. Jesus. Maite. Fani. Fernando. Maria Dolores.
MartaMarta fun beso). Carmen. Emiiiano y Abel who supported, understood and suffered my
professionall decisions.
Too Dr D. van Tijn and his family, Antoinette. Mischa and now Noah, who all cheered me upp and warmed me in many special moments, with their smile, conversations. "stellingen",, laughs and music.
Andd finally, to all my Dutch friends. Eelco. Bruce. Martin. Rene. Hanke. Merel. Marisol (tuu eres internacionaU and many others that I will forget to mention here, who contributedd to the gezelligheid of my Dutch experience. This includes anyone that asked mee to have a coffee together, because they detected that I might need one.
II would like that. now. all of you feei the product of these efforts, the present thesis, as somethingg yours. Hartelijk dank. Thank you. Gracias
