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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dr. Agathe Chaigne and Dr. Frederik Verweij are amongst the 15 experienced, Utrecht-based researchers awarded a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros by the Dutch Research Council. The grant enables them to develop their own innovative line of research and set…
Anna Akhmanova:
Cellular Dynamics
Lukas Kapitein: Biophysics
Florian Berger:
Theoretical Biophysics
Agathe Chaigne:
Cell division dynamics
Ginny Farías:
Neuronal Organelle Dynamics
Martin Harterink:
C. elegans neurobiology
Casper Hoogenraad: Molecular Neuroscience
Maarten Kole:
Axonal Signalling
Sabrina Oliveira:
Molecular Targeted Therapies
Ihor Smal: Image Analysis, Smart Microscopy and AI
Frederik Verweij:
Extracellular Vesicle Biology
