Meet the members of Tom Taghon’s T cell Team.
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. Tom Taghon
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 stu...
Postdocs
Postdoc
Dr. Kai Ling Liang
Kai is the coordinator for the Novistem project funded by European Innovation Council.
Postdoc
Dr. Nicole Oatman
Nicole aims to gain a deeper understanding of the role of GATA3 misexpression in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Postdoc
Dr. Lena Boehme
Lena studies the molecular drivers of the αβ vs. γδ T cell lineage decision in the human thymus using single ...
Postdoc
Dr. Jeffrey Aalders
Jeffrey is working on the optimization of CAR T cell differentiation from human iPSCs as part of the NOVISTEM ...
PhD Students
PhD Student
Tamara De Vos
Tamara is interested in the involvement of HES genes in T cell development and malignancies.
PhD Student
Cato Deliaert
Cato investigates regulatory mechanisms involved in the differentiation of hematopietic progenitor stem cells ...
PhD Student
Maryam Hassan
Maryam explores the molecular mechanisms that control the differentiation of hematopoietic precursors in the h...
PhD Student
Michaela Cesnekova
Michaela aims to unravel the role of GATA3 in early T cell development as well as the potential contribution o...
PhD Student
Silke Paepens
Silke studies the early stages of T-cell development, with an emphasis on understanding both functional roles ...
Lab Technicians
Bio-IT
Bio-Informatician
Tom Putteman
Tom supports the team by providing bioinformatics expertise in the analysis of both bulk and single cell seque...
Alumni
Laure Pieters
PhD Student
Laure strives to optimize in vitro iPSC to T cell differentiation to enhance CAR T cell therapy.