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Vici grant for Floris Foijer24 Feb. 2023Floris Foijer has been awarded a Vici grant of 1.5 million from the netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). With this grant, together with his team he will spend the next five years investigating how chromosomally unstable cancers evade the immune system. https://umcgresearch.
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Parkinson NL grant for Eugenia Goya from Nollen Lab.06 Jan. 2023Eugenia Goya from Ellen Nollen’s lab received a grant of € 93.174 from the Parkinson NL. Her project “Worm-Microbiomics” aims to develop a fast testing platform to study the effect of single bacterial species from the gut microbiota in C. elegans models of Parkinson’s Disease. The collec
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Folkert Kuipers has been appointed as a member of The Scientific Advisory Board (WAR) of Hartstichting02 Jan. 2023Prof. Dr. Folkert Kuipers, Professor of Pediatrics (UMCG) and Scientific Director of ERIBA has been appointed as a member of The Scientific Advisory Board (WAR) of Hartstichting from 1st January 2023. https://professionals.hartstichting.nl/
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UMCG medal for Henk Heidekamp22 Dec. 2022In the context of the 225 years aniversary of the UMCG, Henk Heidekamp, our Managing Director received a medal for his exceptional commitment to the five departments of wich Henk is the manager. Congratulations Henk!
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Floris Foijer was awarded a Dutch Cancer Society/KWF grant22 Dec. 2022‘In 80% of all cancers, cancer cells have an abnormal number of chromosomes, a state called aneuploidy. Aneuploidy discriminates cancer cells from non-cancer cells, thus making it an attractive target for cancer therapy. However, aneuploidy itself decreases the proliferation potential of healt
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Organized disorder01 Nov. 2022While most proteins neatly fold into stable structures, there are also many important proteins that are supposed to stay disordered. Disordered proteins can however be sticky and may clump together causing cellular dysfunction and, eventually, disease. An essential structure that relies disordered p
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Naming ERIBA seminar room25 Oct. 2022Monday October 24th, there was an official naming of our ERIBA seminar room. The seminar room is named after the late Professor Marten Hofker. Professor Hofker was employed as a Professor in Molecular Genetics at the UMCG. With this naming we honor him, as his contribution was instrumental in the fi
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New Scientific Director ERIBA01 Aug. 2022Folkert Kuipers PhD (1957) will act as Scientific Director of ERIBA and head of the Department of the Biology of Ageing at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) from August 1st, 2022. Folkert studied biology/biochemistry at the University of Groningen (UoG) and received his PhD degree in Me
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Marco Demaria received a KWF-grant18 Jul. 2022Marco Demaria received a grant of 776.028 euro’s from KWF. In his research he focused on interventions that counteract the negative long-term effects of chemotherapy. View the whole article here (in Dutch): KWF subsidie voor Marco Demaria (umcg.nl)
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HOOFDZAKEN on a working visit in ERIBA05 Jul. 2022On April 12 people of the “HOOFDZAKEN” organisation were on a working visit in ERIBA. “Hoofdzaken”is a collaboration between de Hersenstichting, MIND, ZonMW,NWO and LSH/Health Holland. View the link for the article about the visit (in Dutch) https://www.hoofdzaken.nl/n