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ERIBA congratulates Chiri Loeters and Annabel Broer who won third place in the Jan Kommandeurprijs 2014. The University of Groningen grants this award to secondary school students with an excellent scientific presentation. The two girls from Maartens College in Groningen were guests in the group of

Professor Gerald de Haan was recently appointed as Member of the Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board (MCMB) of the United Kigdom Medical Research Center, from 1 April 2014. Research Board members of the Council are internationally recognized leaders from academia and industry in the areas of expe

Peter Lansdorp was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Letters, joining an elite list of 2,800+ European scholars from all over the world. The mission of this prestigious body is to promote a wider appreciation of the value of European scholarship and research and to

Peter Lansdorp was inducted Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest honor a scholar can achieve in the arts, humanities and sciences in Canada. The new Fellows were inducted past November 16, 2013 at a ceremony held at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Banff.

Max van den Berg officially opened ERIBA in attendance of many national and international guests on November 7. They joined the opening program in which Jet Bussemaker, Minister of Education and Science and Hans Clevers,  the President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences were invi

‘PloidyNet’: The impact of chromosomal instability on health: Molecular causes and consequences of aneuploidy’ – A Marie Curie Initial Training Network. We are pleased to announce the kick-off of PloidyNet, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) financed by the European Commission’s

Annemieke van der Goot who defended her thesis “Genetic modifiers of ageing and age-related proteotoxicity” last September 25 was awarded cum laude. Annemieke conducted her PhD in the lab of Ellen Nollen and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, USA. Groningen, Octo

We are pleased to announce that ERIBA will have its official opening ceremony on November 7. The President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hans Clevers, has kindly accepted the invitation to attend this event, and share his thoughts on the future of Dutch and European science

Karin Klauke, PostDoc at ERIBA’s  Laboratory of Ageing Biology and Stem Cells, received the prestigious New Investigator First Prize at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Experimental Hematology, held in Vienna, Austria from August 22 to 25, 2013. Her abstract and pres

“Elation and relief. Elated to have an opportunity to expand and establish my lab. Relieved that I have been judged good enough to get this opportunity.” Michael Chang is one of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) VIDI laureates and will receive an € 800,000 grant to dev