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On March 18, Ufuk Tan Timur, who was a shared PhD student between the Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology of the RWTH Aachen University and the Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery of the Maastricht University Medical Center+ (MUMC+) successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Micro-environmental and macro-environmental improvements of joint quality in knee joint pathologies” in Maastricht.
Picture shows Dr. Timur with his happy (co-)promoters PD Dr. Jahr (Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen, on left), Professor Dr. Welting and Dr. Pieter Emans (both Dept. Orthopedic Surgery, MUMC+; left-to-right). Not pictured: promoter Professor Dr. Lodewijk van Rhijn from the same department.
Although some members of the examination committee still participated via Zoom, this was one of the first face-to-face promotions after a long COVID-19 period. Picture shows Dr. Timur (holding his certificate), surrounded by his paranymphs, in front of his happy promoters and members of his “corona”: last row, beadle of the MUMC+, Dr. Koen Bos (Orthopaedic surgeon, Erasmus MC), professors Luc van Loon and Lorenzo Moroni, Dr. Emans (Orthopaedic surgeon, MUMC+), professors Ron Heeren en Martijn van Griensven (left-to-right). Professors Sjoerd Bulstra (University Medical Center Groningen), Marcel Karperien (University of Twente), Poeze, and van Osch (Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam) of the assessment committee participated online.
