On the 30th of October 2019, Evie van der Spoel, one of the young investigators of THYRAGE, successfully defended her PhD thesis at the Leiden University.
She focused on the association between 24-hour pituitary hormone secretion and familial longevity in participants of the Leiden Longevity Study. Her full thesis titled ‘The endocrinology of familial longevity: time series analyses of different hormonal axes and their interrelationships’ can be found at the website of the Leiden University.
