Prof. Anna Akhmanova from Utrecht University and her colleagues from UK, Singapore and Canada have been awarded a 1.35 million USD grant from the Human Frontier Science Program. This international programme is extremely competitive. From the initial total of 672 … Read more

Sabrina Oliveira received a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This 1.5 M€ grant is intended for excellent research proposals from young scientists, to help them to achieve independence and build their own research teams.

The grant will … Read more

On May 1, 2014 De Stichting Physica appointed Maarten Kole special professor in the Biophysics of complex cellular systems. This chair is connected to the University of Utrecht.

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Anna Akhmanova and Marileen Dogterom aim to understand the basic principles of internal cell organization. This knowledge will eventually make it possible to control essential cellular processes such as cell movement and division. “If you want to manipulate cells, for … Read more

The research group of Hoogenraad has recently developed new imaging tools to visualize and manipulate the cytoskeleton and transport components in living neurons. With the ERC grant they will focus on the changes that occur within the microtubule cytoskeleton during … Read more

Lukas Kapitein received a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This 1.5 M€ grant is intended for excellent researchers with innovative proposals.

The grant will allow Lukas Kapitein to expand the research of his lab on polarized transport … Read more

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