Basic and clinical aspects of mucosal inflammation and healing in
Crohn's disease
Gao, Q
Citation
Gao, Q. (2005, February 1). Basic and clinical aspects of mucosal inflammation and healing in Crohn's disease. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/850
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The experiments described in this thesis were performed at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Leiden University M edical Center, The Netherlands (Head:Prof. dr. C.B.H.W . Lamers). I am grateful to all the people who were involved in the implementation and fulfillment of this thesis.
Specially,I would like to express my appreciation to the laboratory of the department (Head:Dr. ir. H.W . Verspaget) for the offered opportunity to use the nice scientific facilities and for the inspiring environment to perform my PhD project. The essential academic guidance and help were fundamental for the accomplishment of this thesis. In particularly, I would like to mention R.A. van Hogezand,M .J.W . M eijer,L. Kruidenier,and P. ter Beek for their very useful help and suggestions. I am indebted to J. M . van der Zon,M . van den Berg, W . van Duijn and J.J. Baelde for their excellent and kind technical support.
I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Du Bailian from the Henan M edical University and to Drs. Jiang Zhonghua,Yu Guiqin and other former colleagues in the Beijing Aerospace Central Hospital for their support and encouragement to proceed with this project. Thanks should be addressed also to my wife, Tian Runlan, and to my son because their coming brought an integrated family life back to me. This thesis is also dedicated to my son, Gao Tianran,who is a motivational source for me.
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Qiang Gao was born on 21 August, 1961 in Zhengzhou, Henan province, P.R. China.
Feb. 1967-Jul. 1977: Primary and secondary education at Zhongmou County Schools, Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.
Feb. 1978-Dec. 1982:Undergraduate medical student, obtained the Bachelor degree of M edicine at Henan M edical College (later called Henan M edical University), Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.
Feb. 1983-Aug. 1986:M edicaldoctor in the Department of Internal M edicine, Zhongmou County Hospital, Henan province, China.
Sept. 1986-Jul. 1989: Graduate medicalstudent under the supervision of Prof. Du Bailian, obtained the M aster degree of M edicine in the Department of Anatomy, Henan M edicalUniversity. The project was entitled:allotransplantation of intrahepatic pancreatic islets in diabetic rats induced by alloxan. Sept. 1989-Dec.1998:M edical doctor in the Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology
(Heads: Drs. Jiang Zhonghua and Yu Guiqin), Beijing Aerospace Central Hospital (Central Hospital of China Aerospace Corporation), Beijing, China.
Jan. 1999-Jan. 2000: Visiting scholar from the Chinese Scholarship Council in the Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology (Head:Prof. dr. C.B.H.W . Lamers), Leiden University M edicalCenter, Leiden, The Netherlands. Feb. 2000-Feb. 2005:Continued the research as a PhD student in the same department under
