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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)

Versatile 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

Sven van IJzendoorn and his team received a donation from the Daniel Courtney Trust for their research on microvillus inclusion disease, a rare diseases caused by defective motor protein and endosome function. http://www.makingitbetter.org.uk/

Ben Feringa from the University of Groningen received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read More