What if the earliest signs of vascular disease could be observed as they unfold—inside lab-grown human blood vessels that mimic real-life conditions?
Can we keep a donated heart alive for longer? And if we can, could we treat it outside the body? These are the questions Mats Vervoorn looked into during his PhD.
Moving a nerve from your arm to your eye to bring back feeling in the cornea. This special operation was done for the first time in the Netherlands this week, by doctors at UMC Utrecht.
Can we better predict which patients will develop knee osteoarthritis? During his PhD, Chien Nguyen focused on enhancing imaging techniques for knee osteoarthritis patients with leg malalignment.