On 9 July, Prof. Rens Voesenek was interviewed by Dutch television programme EenVandaag on the possibilities of helping potato plants survive extreme rainfall.
Prof. Ineke Braakman, Professor of Cellular Protein Chemistry, will become chair of the NWO domain Exact and Natural Sciences (ENS) on January 1, 2017.
STW and the Dutch Cancer Society donate 5 million euros to 11 projects in the programme Technology for Oncology. Five projects involve researchers from Utrecht.