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17:22:15 June 22 2009

Today I received the ESRF New Investigator Award 2009.
€12.000 for a project of one year!! I am really happy with that.

21:12:00 Januari 6 2009

Nathaniël Rocco Ryan. After a long chiltbirth, twelf minutes past nine our son was born.

12:00:00 December 5 2008

Nominee Clinician of the year 2007 – 2008.
Category resident MUMC+.

14:47:00 July 8 2008

We are Pregnant! Junior is 12 weeks and 4 days safe with mamma. The expected date is the 16th of januari.

11:30:15 Juni 24 2008

A novel missense mutation in the second extra cellular domain of GJB2, p.Ser183Phe, causes a syndrome of focal palmoplantar keratoderma with deafness acceptable for publication in The American Journal of Pathology. In addition to print publication, the article will be published online. Chapter two...whoea!

13:30:00 April 22 2008

Today the novel works council of the MUMC+ is installed. As fresh member I may prove my added value. With the suport of m fellow residents I am confidend and up to the challenge.

09:15:23 Januari 9 2008

The "proofs" of the first chapter of my PhD thesis are in: A novel missense mutation in GJB2 disturbs gap junction protein transport and causes focal palmoplantar keratoderma with deafness. J Med Genet. 2007 Nov 12; [Epub ahead of print]. (The JID didn't want it, so why not be succesfull in a journal with a higher impact factor?!)

00:00:00 Januari 1

PersonalCoach4U is know an official company. I'm very proud of my wife, whom has put a lot of effort in to be succesfull. Champagne and good luck!
Everybody: The BEST for 2008!

23:30:15 December 7 2007

Cambridge. Here we spent a week at the history oozing campus following the excellent basic course biology of the skin.
Cambridge is a mozaic of different College's with each their own buildings, students and traditions. The cousre was quite busy. Our fellow attendants were a melange of residents, dematologists and researchers. An complementary social program was great fun, and kept us focussed during the lectures.

15:55:00 December 2 2007

The Glasgow adventure is done. With the financial support of a geneskin travel grant three months of excelent training by Patricia Martin, whoam tought me a great deal of connexins and research were made possible. I can look back at an exciting and really fun time. My fellow PhD students in the lab were very hospitable and they involved me in their personal lifes for which I am very gratefull. The research gained momentum, it was fantastc!

12:00:00 Februari 15 2007

My first peer reviewed paper ever: Skin changes in oculo-dento-digital dysplasia are correlated with C-terminal truncations of connexin 43. Am J Med Genet A. 2007 Feb 15.

Amices welcome on my personal website,


Since march 2006 I am a resident Dermatology at the Maastricht University Medical Center. Here I able myself in the art of diagnosing and treatment of skindisease. Main focus of the Department is Chronic eczema, Skin cancer, Varicose veins, and we are a secondary referral center for Genetic skin diseases.

My main focus of research are the Gap junction diseases of the skin. It is an heterogenenic group of heretidary diseases varying from very mild to merily crippling. Gap junctions are communication channels which cells depent on to coordinate growth and differentiation.


Zeven Zeven Six. This day I made the best dicision of my life, marying my dear wife Marjolein. The 6th of januari 2009 our, Nathan, was born.




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