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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

Role of immediate early genes in the development of salivary gland organoids in polyisocyanopeptide hydrogels Paulien Schaafsma, Laura Kracht, Mirjam Baanstra, Anne L. Jellema-de Bruin, and Robert P. Coppes Front Mol Biosci. 2023; 10: 1100541.

NWO invests 25M EU in advanced microscopy infrastructure. The UMCG will have a prominent role in data management and data analysis (Ben Giepmans is project leader). Read more on Eurobioimaging Read more on NWO    

Thursday 9 February 2023 was the first of a new series of the Medical Youth Academy of the UMCG, in which Hiske van Duinen contributed by giving a lecture on how the lungs work to group 7/8 of two primary schools. RTV Noord and OOG tv did an item about this and the Dutch ‘Jeugd JournaalR

          Het vieren van vrouwen in de wetenschap – Koffietijd Vandaag schoven wetenschappers Julia Cramer en Marie-José van Tol aan om het te hebben over vrouwen in de wetenschap. Morgen is het namelijk voor de achtste keer Internationale Dag voor Vrouwen en Me

  The AAA+ chaperone VCP disaggregates Tau fibrils and generates aggregate seeds in a cellular system Itika Saha, Patricia Yuste-Checa, Miguel Da Silva Padilha, Qiang Guo, Roman Körner, Hauke Holthusen, Victoria A. Trinkaus, Irina Dudanova, Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego, Wolfgang Baumeister

On May 25, a selected group of nominated researchers and students from RUG will compete for the prestigious  nanocar-trophfe and eternal fame coupled to the Ben Feringa Impact Award. Ody Sibon is one of these nominees for her work on the disease PKAN, which she moved from basic and  mechanisti

Because the UMCG celebrates its 225st anniversary, 225 UMCG employees recently received an “UMCG lintje”. We are proud on and congratulate the people from our department who received this award. They are:     Nieske Brouwer, researchanaliste Molecular Neurobiology BSCS

Fatigue in primary Sjögren’s syndrome is associated with an objective decline in physical performance, pain and depression. Prak RF, Arends S, Verstappen GM, van Zuiden G, Kroese FGM, Bootsma H, Zijdewind I. in Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2022. https://www.clinexprheumatol.org/abstract.asp?a=1888