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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

Conserved Atg8 recognition sites mediate Atg4 association with autophagosomal membranes and Atg8 deconjugation by Susana Abreu , Franziska Kriegenburg,, Rubén Gómez-Sánchez, , Muriel Mari, Jana Sánchez-Wandelmer,, Mads Skytte Rasmussen, Rodrigo Soares Guimarães, Bettina Zens, Martina Schus

On the 20th and 21st of April 2017, Bart Eggen (Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen), Wia Baron (Department of Cellbiology, University Medical Center Groningen) and the Multiple Sclerosis Center Noord Nederland (MSCNN) organized a meeting “Microglia, from biology to pat

Wia Baron (Cell Biology) and Inge Zuhorn (BME, UMCG) received a project grant from the Dutch MS Research Foundation. Title of the project: “Delivery of a novel therapeutic drug to the brain for myelin repair in multiple sclerosis’.  It is a 4 year PhD student project.  

On the 21-21st of April the 1st International Oldenburg-Groningen Fresh cadaver flap course was held at the dissection facility of the Section Anatomy. Organizers Janniko Georgiadis from the UMCG Groningen and Lucian Jiga from Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oldenburg organized a fresh cadaver flap course

of a Special Issue that Rubén Gómez-Sánchez (Cell Biology, Reggiori group) is leading in the journal “Neural Plasticity” Role of Autophagy in Neuroplasticity (https://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/si/726790/cfp/) Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to rearrange itself, by the es

with project: Identification of external sources of Coenzyme A for cells and organisms Coenzyme A was discovered more than 60 years ago and is mostly known for its essential role in metabolic reactions in the cell, among which, the reactions of the Krebs cycle are the better known. Recently, it was

for the following project on the intersection between chemistry and cell biology (pdf) (Application form at the end of this page) Coenzyme A is an essential metabolic cofactor for living organisms and is mostly known for its role in over 100 cellular metabolic reactions. We and others demonstrated t