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On 21 June 2017 Claire Kos defended her thesis On the move: Towards understanding the neural basis of apathy in front of a committee of established researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. Apathy can be described as a behavioral characteristic involving a loss of motivation and initia

The MS Center Noord Nederland (MSCNN) and members of the Department of Neuroscience have received a total of 1.5 million euros in the past months to do research. Susanne Kooistra received a fellowship MS Research of over € 400,000. She will investigate how certain cells in the brain, the microgli

  Title: An improved understanding of radiotherapy-induced neurocognitive decline Project leader: Lara Barazzuol Summary: Radiotherapy is applied in the treatment of many cancers, including primary and metastatic brain tumours. However, when using radiotherapy, irradiation of normal brain tis

On 19 June 2017 Lara Barazzuol (Coppes group) received the ‘Adrian C. Begg Award’ at the Wolfsberg Meeting on Molecular Radiation Biology and Oncology in Switzerland. The Adrian C. Begg Award is given to the author (younger than 35 year-old) with the highest scored poster and who has proven to p

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On 26 April 2017 Thais de Almeida Galatro defended her thesis Players in glioma progression: Genomic exploration of glioma cell compartments in front of a committee of established researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. In this thesis Thais de Almeida Galatro presents the latest resu

André Aleman, professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry at the UMCG, has been elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). An honor, says Aleman, and that’s exactly what a membership is: a tribute to a scientific career. The KNAW has traditionally been a soci

by Lara Barazzuol, Limei Ju, Penny A. Jeggo Stem and differentiated cells frequently differ in their response to DNA damage, which can determine tissue sensitivity. By exploiting insight into the spatial arrangement of subdomains within the adult neural subventricular zone (SVZ) in vivo, we sh