Congrats Lisanne and Xiaole!

On March 20th and 24th, Lisanne Laagland and Xiaole Tong completed and defended their PhD at Utrecht University! With these two graduations, the iPSpine journey has officially concluded. We look back at two days filled great exchange of thoughts, broadened horizons, joy.

Luckily, science will continue as Lisanne will continue as postdoctoral researcher in our research group and is involved in the transition project Osteoarthritis & Rheumatoid Arthritis of the CPBT project, a National Growth Fund dedicated to accelerating the transition to animal-free biomedical innovations. Besides that, she remains actively engaged in continuing the IVD regeneration research line. Xiaole will continue his postdoctoral career at the Connective Tissue Repair Lab headed by Prof. Gerjo van Osch at Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam.

A massive congrats to Lisanne and Xiaole on reaching their milestones!