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A body that is donated to the section Anatomy for educational and scientific purposes does not return to the relatives. To give them a place to commemorate their loved ones the section Anatomy has placed a monument at the Yarden cemetery in Groningen. Every year on November 2 on All Souls’ Day

Steven Bergink: Understanding the cause of ataxia in the DNA repair deficiency syndrome Ataxia Telangiectasia: a possible link between DNA damage and proteostasis. Charity 4 Brains organises a charity event Music & Fun which will take place on 4 November 2016 at the Posthuis Theatre in

On 21 September 2016 Annerieke de Vos defended her thesis Insight in psychosis: Metacognitive processes and treatment before a committee of established researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. Insight in psychosis Insight is impaired in 50- 80% of the patients with schizophrenia. Anne

The trigger of T1D remains elusive. Using advanced microscopic approaches, we found peculiar interactions between the endocrine and exocrine pancreas. This research will address whether exocrine – endocrine cell interactions do induce inflammatory responses leading to type 1 diabetes

Sven van IJzendoorn and his team received an innovation grant from the Dutch Digestive Foundation (MLDS) for the application of induced pluripotent stem cells to study microvillus inclusion disease, which is a rare disease caused by defective motor protein and endosome function. Click here to

On 26 September 2016 Liwen Zhang defended her thesis Emotion, self and psychopathology: Neural correlates of emotion regulation and self-reflection in mood disorders and schizophrenia before a committee of established researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. Emotion regulation is the

  Sven van IJzendoorn and his team received a Gastrostart grant from the Netherlands Society of Gastroenterology (NVGE) for their research on Wilson disease (a.k.a. hepatolenticular degeneration), which is a rare congenital copper trafficking disease associated with liver and neurological sy

Due to his upcoming retirement, dr. Peter Room will leave our department. Peter has been with the Section Anatomy for many years, and has been a wonderful colleague who will be dearly missed. Most of you may not know that around the time the movie “Back to the future” played in the cinemas, and

Depression and the research into depression attracts a lot of attention in the press lately. A short interview with Marie-Jose van Tol was published in the newspaper Het Parool on 09 October 2016. The interview can be read here(dutch)