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XS grants provide up to € 50,000 to support promising ideas and to facilitate innovative, exploratory initiatives.

A new report published in The Lancet issues a fresh clarion call: plastic pollution is a grave and growing danger to human and planetary health.

Op 30 juni en 1 juli organiseerde het MOMENTUM-consortium voor microplastics en menselijke gezondheid een wetenschappelijk symposium en een stakeholderbijeenkomst.

COVID-19 can trigger inflammation that can awaken dormant cancer cells in the lungs, raising the risk of lung metastasis and cancer-related death. This was revealed by research conducted by an international team of researchers, published today in the journal Nature.

“Societal change always has an ethical dimension,” argues philosopher Jeroen Hopster

Over thirty promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1 in 7 Venis went to Utrecht researchers this year.

The Dutch Association for Stabij and Wetterhounen dogs is collaborating with the Fit2Breed Veterinary Genetics Expertise Centre to develop the Frisian Stabij breed.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Riccardo Levato an Proof of Concept Grant to advance HYBRIGEL, a hydrogel for organoid culture and multi-technology bioprinting.

The SPACES consortium will develop solutions that support children with a disability or chronic illness in participating in play and sports activities.

7 grants were awarded in the May 2025 round of the ADS research grant calls.

The Executive Board has appointed Jarno Drost as Professor of Models and mechanisms of pediatric solid tumorigenesis at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��

The Executive Board has appointed Ruben van Boxtel as Professor of Genome Biology of Stem Cells at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��

The Centre for Animal-free Biomedical Translation, supported by the Dutch National Growth Fund, was officially launched under its new name: Ombion

Every month, Emeritus Professor of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s long history. This time: holidays at university.

Carine van Rhijn researched medieval medical texts in unexpected places: “When you start looking at manuscripts, you never know what you are going to find".

Veterinarian experts have developed a new method to estimate the age of puppies based on their teeth, thanks to hundreds of dog owners.

NWO has announced 59 allocations for the SSH Open Competition M programme; among them are eleven Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� researchers.

A retrospective on the NATO Summit 2025 with Beatrice de Graaf, who attended as historian and expert on security, crisis and terrorism.

The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) is proud to present its new training programme! Everybody is welcome to join our special online lecture series and the CLARIN workshop on the ParlaMint Corpora.

SIDN Fund and Topsector ICT awarded funding to ten projects with their Responsible AI in Practice call.

The Hippocratic Oath has been performed by physicians since 1878. Since 2019 the faculty Veterinary Medicine joined in and has evaluated its' use.

conference: Solidarity in the European Union. From migration and democracy to social policy and nationalism, this day was filled with in-depth discussion and insights.

Professor of Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns has been awarded the highest distinction for researchers in the Netherlands by the NWO: the Stevin Prize.

Researchers at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and RaboResearch have been publishing the Broad Prosperity Indicator (BWI), which looks at prosperity more broadly than just purchasing power or GDP, since 2016.

Linguist Yoad Winter, together with filmmaker Sjors Swierstra, produced a music documentary on the important Senegalese percussionist Doudou Ndiaye Rose.