Category Archives: News

Looking back on a great NOCI Troppo Breve meeting

Nestled in the Frisian countryside, the fifth edition of the Troppo Breve took place from the 4th to the 7th of July 2024.

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Hanna Lammertse joins hDMT as Manager Infrastructure.

Hanna obtained her PhD in Neurobiology from the VU in 2022, in which she studied the pathological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders using hiPSC-based disease models and investigated optimal study design & statistical power for hiPSC-based disease modelling.

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Juliët van Iersel new PhD on role microglia in Multiple Sclerosis at Amsterdam UMC

Juliët van Iersel has started as a new PhD candidate in the group of Anne-Marie van Dam, in collaboration with Vivi Heine, at the department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam UMC.

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Organ-on-a-chip for Correlative Microscopy

In a collaboration between the group of Nico Sommerdijk and Anat Akiva (Radboudumc) and the group of Pascal Jonkheijm (UTwente) an Organ-on-Chip platform was developed,

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Raising the bar – Microphysiological systems to the next level

MPSs can emulate the physiology and structure of organs and tissues of the human body. They offer possibilities to measure physiological features of tissues and organs and test how these are affected by disease or new drugs.

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ZonMw Open Competition grant for researchers from RUG and Erasmus MC

Researchers Reinoud Gosens and Anika Nagelkerke from University of Groningen, and Ralph Stadhouders and Rudi Hendriks from Erasmus MC received a ZonMw Open Competition grant

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Best poster prize for George Flamourakis and Michela Manco at TU Delft Bioday2024

During the TU Delft Bioday2024 on April 11th 2024, chaired by Angelo Accardo, the Best Poster Prize was awarded to to George Flamourakis and Michela Manco.

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UMCG will make research facilities available for drug development

To improve the availability and effectiveness of medicines in the Netherlands, the UMCG is going to set up the company G2 Solutions.

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Personalized intestine-on-chip successfully emulates the human small intestine

A new study from the Immunogenetics group of the Department of Genetics at UMCG, led by Sebo Withoff and Iris Jonkers, shows that human iPSCs can be developed into an in vitro model that resembles the small intestine,

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SMART OoC First-generation Starter Kit Demo Day

After two years the SMART OoC (Standardized open Modular Approach to Recapitulate Tissues) project has reached an important milestone.

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