Category: Grant & Award News

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


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, … Read more

Posted in Announcements, Grant & Award News, News, Uncategorized

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

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 … Read more

Posted in Grant & Award News, News Tagged with: , , , , ,

Agathe Chaigne awarded ECR starting grant

Roles of cytoplasmic bridges in cell-cell cohesion and communication

The decisive moment in cell division, when cells actually split in two, is surprisingly variable in biology. At the end of cell division, the two cells are still connected by a … Read more

Posted in Grant & Award News, News

Harold MacGillavry awarded Vici grant

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 … Read more

Posted in Grant & Award News, News

Anna Akhmanova elected as honorary member of the UBV

Anna was presented as the new honorary member of the UBV at the centenary opening of the UBV in the Domkerk. The UBV applauded her contribution to the field of Cell Biology Dynamics and her commitment to teaching of biology … Read more

Posted in Grant & Award News, News

20.8 million euros for Gravitation project IMAGINE!

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 … Read more

Posted in Grant & Award News, News

Vidi grants for Agathe Chaigne and Frederik Verweij

Agathe_and_Frederik

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

Read more
Posted in Grant & Award News, News, Uncategorized

Commendation from the Dean for Laurens van Meeteren

It is unusual for a course to score an 8.4 in the evaluations. But the course Molecular Biology has proven that it’s possible, even when you have to teach the course online to more than 450 first-year students.

Faculty of … Read more

Posted in Grant & Award News, News