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De Urban Walk Groningen is an unique and unforgettable walk event of about 12 km and 20 km through Groningen. This year the National MS foundation is linked to the Urgan Walk Series as a good cause. The tame of MS Center North Netherlands consists of a number enthusiastic walkers who will walk

ZonMW Project grant for Inge Zijdewind (“Post-exertional malaise, a starting point to study and understand ME/CFS”) in cooperation with Barbara Bakker, Sonja Ockenburg and Martijn Faassen, embedded in consortium project ME/CFS Lines.    

Met MRI speuren naar sporen van psychische stoornissen en de werking van therapie Wat gebeurt er in het brein bij depressies en zijn ze te voorkomen? Die vragen staan centraal in het onderzoek van Marie-José van Tol, adjunct-hoogleraar stemming & cognitie. Dankzij een Vidi-beurs onderzoe

Kolff Paper of the year – Best Societal Impact Award 2022 for the Coppes (& Kruijff) group for the article “Patient-derived parathyroid organoids as a tracer and drug-screening application model” in Stem cell reports.    

Horizon2020 grant for a project (chair Iris Sommer) that will use automatic speech analysis to predict psychiatric events.

Record bright red mScarlet3 for analysis of localization, function, life time and more… Dorus Gadella (UvA) and collaborators, including Anouk Wolters and Ben Giepmans, now present the red fluorescent protein mScarlet3 for analysis of molecules, organelles and processes in live cells and organ

Insulin aberrant transcripts in the ‘wrong’ cells? René van Tienhoven (PI: Bart Roep) and Maria Kracht (PI: Arnaud Zaldumbide) and coworkers, including Anouk Wolters (PI: Ben Giepmans) now present the presence of aberrant insulin transcripts in delta cells. Thus, insulin promotor activity m

Marina Trombetta-Lima is the newly appointed Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy Marina Trombetta-Lima, currently a post-doc in the Molecular Neurobiology section, is the newly appointed Rosalind Franklin fellow at Prof Peter Olinga’s group i

The network for pancreatic organ donors with diabetes (nPOD) innovation award for ‘Islet nanotomy’ was handed to Ben Giepmans   at the 15th nPOD meeting . An open access EM data repository of nPOD biobanked tissue was created, analysed and published. This is possibly the largest dbase of i

The section of molecular neurobiology from the department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems at the UMCG is proud to announce that Dr. Inge R. Holtman, Rosalind Franklin Fellow, Assistant Professor in Neurogenomics, has received the prestigious ERC Starting grant, with a total value of