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During his PhD, Justin Lemans worked on a tough challenge in pediatric healthcare: how to treat severe scoliosis in very young children without stopping their growth.

How can we make hip replacements even better and safer? Thom Snijders and Joost van Erp looked for answers during their PhD research

NS has announced it will go on strike.

A new round of financial support is offered by the Dynamics of Youth community Youth Education & Life Skills (YELS) to promote and support research activities. Submit your proposals by June 13, 2025.

Silvia Mihăilă and Martijn Koppens have been awarded NWO Open Competition ENW-XS grants for their innovative and high-risk research projects.

Tom Bracco Gartner developed new models for cardiac fibrosis, demonstrating their potential for therapy testing and studied the effect of stretching on heart cells.

Global Health participates in organising several summer school courses, focusing on many aspects of global health, with the goal of generating knowledge and action.

Launch of Basement Membrane Extract (BME)-free database, hosted by 3Rs Centre Utrecht.

Three research teams with researchers from the RMU have been awarded the ZonMW open competition grant.

Lisanne Laagland and Xiaole Tong worked together intensively on the iPSpine project that aims to find a remedy for lower back pain. How did they experience this?

During her PhD, Maj-Britt Buchholz worked on an innovative idea: could breast milk be the key to improve breast cancer research?

After his kidneys failed, Tugrul Irmak’s experience with dialysis made him decide to dedicate his career to improving kidney disease treatments.

Selma Kaffka genaamd Dengler studied donor heart preservation with machine perfusion to increase available donor hearts and chances of a successful transplant.

In three training sessions you will learn how to present your research briefly and attractively. You will put it into practice during the heats and have a chance to win € 1500,-.

"(De)F√ormule," a collaboration between Universiteit van Nederland and the Institute 4 Preventive Health , takes a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to health.

Joep Sprangers studied the properties of pancreatic tumour cells to ultimately work towards better treatments.

Hetty Dreyer successfully defended her PhD thesis, Optimizing In Vitro Nasal Epithelial Cell Models for Enhanced Cilia-Related Airway Research, on December 17.

On 26 November 2024, the Utrecht AI Event took place. This event focused on the power of multidisciplinary collaboration in AI research.

Leanne De Silva explored the use of lab-engineered cartilage mimics as a clinical application for bone repair.

The focus area Applied Data Science has funding to financially support small research projects within the Special Interest Groups.

This year, seven Utrecht researchers will receive an ERC Consolidator Grant of approximately 2 million euros each. The European Union provides these grants support excellent scientists and scholars at the career stage where they may still be consolidating their own independent research teams to pursue their most promising scientific ideas.

The research focus area Sport & Society concludes with a special, digital magazine. But this is certainly not the end of Sport & Society as a theme in research and education.

LPL is hiring a student assistant for 16 hours a week starting from mid-to-late-November. Hardware knowledge isn't necessary but a willingness to learn is!

Vivian Nguyen has defended her dissertation on the development of animal-free research models on October 21st.

Intestinal damage can lead to the onset of different diseases that are life-threatening in the worst cases. Alessandro Cutilli studied the role of T cells in this intestinal damage.