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Anne Rios appointed Professor of Microscopy-Driven Human Cancer and Immunotherapy Innovation

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Anne Rios has been appointed Professor of Microscopy-driven Human Cancer and Immunotherapy Innovation by Utrecht University. Her professorship reflects a long-held dream: using powerful microscope  technologies to understand how treatments work and how to improve them. The research by Rios, who also leads a research group at the Princess Máxima Center, directly supports the development … Read more

Irati and Sebas at Lumox won first prize at the Philips Innovation Award

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Congratulations to Irati Beltrán Hernández and Sebas Pronk (postdocs of the Oliveira Lab)! Lumox won the first prize at the Philips Innovation Award: the largest entrepreneurship award in the Netherlands organized by students! About the start-up: Lumox is developing a light-activated cancer therapy that selectively targets only cancer cells — reducing the need for invasive … Read more

Harold MacGillavry awarded Vici grant

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Shaping our memories: resolving the nanoscale organization of neuronal synapses in memory circuits “How does the brain form and store memories for hours, days or even a lifetime? I am very excited that with this Vici project we can study the nanoscale molecular processes that lead to the lasting imprinting of memories in the brain.” … Read more

Lukas Kapitein elected as EMBO Member

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Biophysicist Lukas Kapitein has been elected as a new member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), an international society of leading life sciences researchers. The membership is a lifetime honour and acknowledges Kapitein’s outstanding scientific contributions. “It is a great honour to be elected as EMBO member. I am excited to join EMBO and … Read more

20.8 million euros for Gravitation project IMAGINE!

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In May 2022 the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science awarded a gravitation grant to the IMAGINE! project. The main applicant for the IMAGINE! project is Anna Akhmanova: “This grant means a lot to me as a cell biologist. It will literally take my research field to the next level: from studying cells in a … Read more