Lance Mulder

Lance Mulder is a PhD-candidate at the OrganoVIR Labs at the Amsterdam UMC location AMC. Lance obtained his degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, with the focus on Neurobiology. For his PhD project, Lance pursues to establish an human infection model to study the effects of congenital cytomegalovirus (Betaherpesvirinae) infection on human brain development, using stem cell-derived brain organoids; an in vitro organotypic model for the developing human brain. He utilises viruses derived from symptomatic congenital neonates. Previously, Lance obtained valuable hands-on experience in human stem cell and neuronal cell culture. In his PhD, Lance is thrilled to become an expert in both neurodevelopmental organoid models and virology.