The title says it all. After all these years, I was finally able to get my Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine this morning, with my thesis “Identification of disregulated metabolic pathways by transcriptomic analysis in renal carcinoma samples” (yes, that’s a long title). The defense was a success and I admit I was surprised when the commitee actually expressed a significant interest in my work. In any case, I’m happy that it’s over, as the past period has been rather hectic.

My supervisor has given me an OK for my thesis (save for a couple of cosmetic changes), therefore now I have just to wait for the verdict of the Ph.D. council then fill in some paperwork: the next step is the defense, sometime in January. After that I’ll probably put my thesis online and post a few articles on the concept of group testing for microarray data.