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  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

The group of Harrie Kampinga has received 2 grants for 2 research projects from Campagneteam Huntington: Project 1: Verbetering van de bestaande activiteit van de chaperone DNAJB6. Prof. Harm Kampinga, UMCG. Kosten 275.000 euro. Project 2: Het werkzame deel van de chaperone DNAJB6 inbouwen in een t

Rob Coppes (Cell Biology/Radiation Oncology), Thera Links (Endocrinology) and John Plukker (Surgery) have obtained a grant from the Dutch Cancer society (KWF) for a project entitled: AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL THERAPY FOR CANCER TREATMENT INDUCED HYPOTHYROIDISM In the Netherlands only, around 10.000 th

H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) grant awarded to a consortium of 15 European groups and SMEs coordinated by Prof. Dr. Fulvio Reggiori The manipulation of autophagy has an enormous therapeutic potential to revolutionize the way we currently treat cancers, neurodegenera