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Steven Bergink receives money from Charity 4 Brains02 Nov. 2016Steven 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
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Thesis defence Annerieke de Vos28 Oct. 2016On 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
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Giepmans lab received EFSD/JDRF/Lilly European Programme in Type 1 Diabetes Research Grant27 Oct. 2016The 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
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Sven van IJzendoorn and his team received innovation grant from Dutch Digestive Foundation (MLDS)26 Oct. 2016Sven 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
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Ruben Gomez Sanchez Guest editor from special issue on Mitochondria and Parkinson’s disease25 Oct. 2016
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Thesis defence Liwen Zhang18 Oct. 2016On 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
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NVGE Start grant received by group Sven van IJzendoorn13 Oct. 2016Sven 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
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Retirement Peter Room10 Oct. 2016Due 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
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Newsarticle Het Parool Marie-Jose van Tol10 Oct. 2016Depression 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)
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Published in Scientific Reports by group Harm Kampinga10 Oct. 2016Versatile members of the DNAJ family show Hsp70 dependent anti-aggregation activity on RING1 mutant parkin C289G (PDF) 2016. no 6:34830 Vaishali Kakkar,*, E. F. Elsiena Kuiper,*, Abhinav Pandey, Ineke Braakman & Harm H. Kampinga Parkinson’s disease is one of the most com