People of NUCMED

Lieke Claessens-Joosten

 Lieke Claessens-Joosten studied Biomedical Science at the Fontys Hogeschool in Eindhoven, followed by the master Oncology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. After graduating in August 2008, she started working as a research technician at the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the Radboud University Medical Center. She obtained her doctoral degree in 2020 with the thesis ‘Good, better, beta. Development and characterization of novel beta cell tracers’. Meanwhile, she started as a postdoctoral researcher in 2019 and her research focuses on the development of new targeted alpha therapies (TAT) for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. In addition, she is responsible for preclinical and clinical contract research.