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Join Helpathon #8 on animal-free alternatives for FCS and Matrigel 22th-24th of May!

They are looking for researchers who have practical experience using the alternatives and anyone else who can bring the field forward or help gear towards impact....

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Creating biological-digital twins of cardiomyocytes

Action potentials of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CM) can be recorded using high-throughput planar patch clamp chips, a microfluidic platform....

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reNEW releases its first annual report

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, has released its first annual report, highlighting the stellar work accomplished since its launch on Jan 1, 2022....

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Successful Kidney-on-Chip Kick-off meeting

The Kick-off meeting of the hDMT Kidney-on-Chip theme group, coordinated by Silvia Mihăilă (chair, Utrecht University) and Jitske Jansen (vice-chair, Erasmus MC), took place on March 16th 2023, at Utrecht University....

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Best poster award for Nastaran Barin (TU Delft)

Nastaran Barin, PhD student in Angelo Accardo’s group at TU Delft, received the Best Poster Award at the Oncotech TU Delft Health Initiative symposium....

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Award for best oral presentation by Victoria Palasantzas

Victoria Palasantzas’s presentation on the application of organ-on-chip in studying non-alcoholic fatty liver disease won the 2nd prize...

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NWO ENW-XS grant for Mahdiyeh Nouri Goushki

Why do we need better-engineered immune cells and tumor models? T-cell therapy, which deals with engineering immune (T-)cells to attack cancer cells, has shown great promise in treating blood cancers....

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Ammodo Science Award 2023 for Jingyuan Fu

ingyuan Fu is one of the winners of the Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research 2023. This prestigious award comes with a cash prize of €350.000, which she can use to pursue new avenues of fundamental scientific research over the coming years....

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Groningen joins forces for research into LRRK2’s role in Parkinson

The Dutch ZonMW has awarded EUR 750,000 to a research project into the exact role of LRRK2 in the development of Parkinson's disease....

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MSCA postdoctoral fellowship for Quentin Faucher (Utrecht University)

Quentin Faucher from Utrecht University was awarded an MSCA postdoctoral fellowship by the European Research Executive Agency (grant reference HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01)...

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