Promotie onderzoek

Part 1: Optimizing ribavirin therapy in transplant recipients with a chronic hepatitis E virus infection by devoloping a NONMEM model for ribavirin. Part 2: Improving immunosuppressive therapy in liver transplant recipients by performing 2 RCT's in which different immunosuppresive strategies will be compared to modify the tacrolimus related toxicity in this population. Part 3: Evaluate the contribution of an outpatient medication service for liver transplant recipients.

RHYME-RCT is a multi-center randomized controlled trial to identify and improve non-adherence in patients with resistant hypertension and are included from 10 peripheral and 2 academic hospitals. Non-adherence is measured by means of a validated dried blood spot method. This method includes 17 antihypertensive drugs from different drug classes.

1. The safety of short hydration during cisplatin chemoradiation in head and neck cancer patients: a randmized controlled trial.
2. The feasibility of 6 monthly gosereline injections in prostate cancer patients. 
3. Nivolumab administration through an elastomeric pump versus iv bag administration: a patient preference study.