Bart Cuppen
Bart studied medicine at the Utrecht University, focusing his clinical and research internships mainly on rheumatology and clinical immunology. After his graduation and intrigued by the complexity and elusiveness of rheumatic diseases, Bart began a Ph.D. trajectory at the Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology department of the University Medical Center Utrecht. Parallel, he earned a master’s degree in epidemiology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Finally, he successfully defended his thesis on the prediction of therapeutic response in rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Challenges of Predicting Response to Treatment
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, disabling disease that mainly affects the synovial joints. The identification of responders and non-responders before initiation of therapy would aid in making strategic treatment decisions and improve clinical outcomes.