Manon Bouckaert

Phone: +32 (0) 933 21342
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1835-2405

​Principal Investigator

• Frauke Coppieters
• Elfride De Baere (co-promotor)

Projects

• Design of a novel antisense oligonucleotide therapy for inherited blindness

Fields of Expertise

• Inherited retinal dystrophies
• ASO design
• iPSC culture and differentiation processes

Appointments

• 2021-2025 FWO PhD fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
• 2020-2021 PhD fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium

Awards and Honours

• 2024 2nd best oral presentation, Belgian Society of Human Genetics (BeSHG) meeting, Belgium

Degrees

• 2020 Master of Biomedical Sciences (major: Medical Genetics), Ghent University, Belgium

Lab Totem
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Meticulous Rhabdomys - Nauwkeurige Streepmuis

Rhabdomys is an energetic animal. Don't underestimate it based on its size. It is quick, sensible and always aware of their surroundings. Enough is never enough, Rhabdomys is constantly looking for new and useful things with it's keen senses.

Characteristics: active, restless, explorative.