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Maartje Geraedts
Medical Science Liaison at Cablon Medical
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Maartje Geraedts
Medical Science Liaison at Cablon Medical
Joined 05/04/2017
Level: LEVEL 01 (12 mo pts: 0 pts)
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Way back in 1998, after completing high school, I started my study medical microbiology at the Gilde Opleidingen (Blerick, The Netherlands), where I graduated in 2001. During this time I got more and more enthusiastic about science, and decided I needed to learn more. I started my study Biochemistry at the Hogeschool Arnhem en Nijmegen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), followed by the study Master of Molecular Life Science in 2004 at the same location. Durning my thesis I studied the expression of glycosaminoglycans in the diaphragm of COPD patients at the department of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud Medical Center Nijmegen. In 2006, I started my PhD at the University of Maastricht, at the department of Human Biology. Here, I studied the effects of dietary proteins on release of satiety hormones from gastrointestinal cells.In 2010, I headed to the United States for my postdoc research. At the University of Maryland School of Medicine I investigated the role of sweet taste receptors in the gastrointestinal tract and what the effects of long-term sweetener ingestion are on the development of obesity and diabetes. After 4 years in Baltimore, I did a short postdoc at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine studying the effects of spinal cord injury on satiety hormone release from the gut.But over time, I found myself getting frustrated with experiments. I much preferred talking and writing about science to the public. In 2013 I started as a freelance journalist for FoodIngredientsFirst. I eventually worked up the courage to hang up my lab coat and took up a position as a scientific writer. Nowadays, I combine running my own science writing business with being an MSL - and couldn’t have dreamed up a more perfect job!
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