Meet the members of Tom Taghon’s T cell Team.
Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. Tom Taghon
Principal Investigator
Prof. dr. Tom Taghon has been leading the Taghon Lab independently since 2012. As principal investigator, his ambitions are to drive the research of human thymocyte development, and to pioneer the study...
Postdocs
Dr. Kai Ling Liang
Postdoc
Kai is the coordinator for the Novistem project funded by European Innovation Council.
Dr. Nicole Oatman
Postdoc
Nicole aims to gain a deeper understanding of the role of GATA3 misexpression in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Dr. Lena Böhme
Postdoc
Lena studies the molecular drivers of the αβ vs. γδ T cell lineage decision in the human thymus using ...
PhD Students
Tamara De Vos
PhD Student
Tamara is interested in the involvement of HES genes in T cell development and malignancies.
Cato Deliaert
PhD Student
Cato investigates regulatory mechanisms involved in the differentiation of hematopietic progenitor stem cells...
Laure Pieters
PhD Student
Laure strives to optimize in vitro iPSC to T cell differentiation to enhance CAR T cell therapy.
Maryam Hassan
PhD Student
Maryam explores the molecular mechanisms that control the differentiation of hematopoietic precursors in the h...
Michaela Cesnekova
Michaela aims to unravel the role of GATA3 in early T cell development as well as the potential contribution o...
Lab Technicians
Bio-IT
Tom Putteman
Bio-Informatician
Tom supports the team by providing bioinformatics expertise in the analysis of both bulk and single cell sequencing...
