We are pleased to welcome Prof. Tom van Agtmael from the University of Glasgow, on July 2nd invited by Caroline Brun and Rémi MOUNIER (Graduate+ MuSkLE)
He will give a seminar at 11am entitled: “ Collagen disorders: is a one-for-all treatment fantasy? ”
📍The seminar will be in the Amphi 3, 3rd floor.
For PGNM Students and Postdocs, you can register for lunch HERE!
Following his undergraduate training in Biochemistry at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), Dr. Van Agtmael obtained his PhD in molecular genetics at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne (Australia). He then moved to the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh for his post-doctoral training as an EU Marie Curie Fellow during which he identified the first vertebrate Col4a1 mutations and implicated type IV collagen in eye and kidney disease. Following a CVRI Wellcome Trust Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, he was awarded a MRC New Investigator Research Grant to investigate the role of collagen IV in vascular biology. He then joined the University of Glasgow as a RCUK Fellow in Human Molecular Genetics where he established his research group within the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences to investigate how mutations in collagen proteins cause disease with the aim of developing highly effective treatments, using a large number of different approaches to analyse the mutations and disease from the molecular to patient level.