Professor Marieke van Ham features on TV
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On Tuesday evening, January 15, Sanquin colleague Professor Marieke van Ham featured in an episode of "Doctors of Tomorrow" entitled "Everything about the immune system".
Marieke explains how the immune system works, based on several items, covered in the broadcast. The program is mainly about unwanted effects of the immune system, such as a peanut allergy.
Presenter Antoinette Hertsenberg visits baby Sepp and his parents for this. Mother Leonie has a serious peanut allergy. Together with Marike Stadermann, pediatric allergist in the Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht, they try to see if it is possible to prevent Sepp from developing a peanut allergy. The show also visits Israel, in where doctors prevent peanut allergy by having babies from six months of age regularly sucking on peanut chips.
Reset the immune system of cancer patients
Antoinette also meets Prof. Jolanda de Vries, who uses a groundbreaking therapy to reset the immune system of cancer patients, such that the cancer cells are broken down by their own body.
Teamleader Tineke Jorritsma also appears in the show. Tineke conducts research on immune cells. She isolates these white blood cells from the blood of donors. The cells are in the buffy coat and would otherwise be thrown away. Donors give permission to use parts of their donation for research.
Marieke van Ham and Tineke Jorritsma work in the Immunopathology department of the Research & Lab services division.
