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Johannes Lehmann (postdoc de Keizer lab) successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘The Age of Rebuilt Cartilage’ on September 11th. Congratulations Dr. Lehmann!

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Imogen Morris successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Lipids in immunometabolism: From lipid handling to lipid antigen presentation and back’ on July 11th. Congratulations Dr. Morris!

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Koos de Wit successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Risk factors and therapeutic interventions for decompensated cirrhosis affecting the gut-liver axis’ on the 27th of June. Congratulations Dr. de Wit!

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CMM PI Jurian Schuijers receives a TKI-PPP grant to investigate novel ways to inhibit beta-catenin signaling for treatment of colon cancer.

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Judith de Jong (van Mil group) successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Nutritional regulation of intestinal development, homeostasis and cancer’ on May 14th. Congratulations Dr. de Jong!

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Interview with Tobias Dansen and Daan van Soest on the (debunked) role of reactive oxygen species in causing DNA damage

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Utrecht Sequencing (USEQ) Facility becomes the first core laboratory offering CosMx™ SMI services for multi-omics (RNA and protein) analysis in the Netherlands.

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Successful 2nd edition of OrganoidNL meeting

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Jeroen Bugter (CMM alumnus) received a prestigious NWO Rubicon fellowship for his postdoctoral research

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KWF grants for Hugo Snippert and Jelte van der Vaart (Maurice lab)

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Rutger Kok (Rodriguez Colman lab) successfully defended his PhD thesis “Homeostasis in intestinal organoids at the single cell level”.

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CMM PI Jeroen de Ridder appointed professor of ‘bioinformatics in molecular medicine’ at the UMC Utrecht

CMM PI Jeroen de Ridder has been appointed professor of bioinformatics in molecular biology at the UMC Utrecht, within the Cancer strategic program. Read more about Jeroen’s career and goals in this post.

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CMM PI Aniek Janssen receives NWO ENW-M1 grant to study DNA damage repair in facultative heterochromatin

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Danny Feijtel (Rodriguez-Colman lab) successfully defended his PhD thesis: ‘Improving therapeutic outcome of patients with Neuroendocrine cancer: Understanding both the target and the bullet’

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Koos de Wit (PhD student van Mil lab) won this year’s Young Hepatologist Award for Basic Science from the Netherlands’ Association for Study of the Liver (NVH).

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Eline Brombacher, one of our dedicated teachers, successfully defended her PhD thesis 'AMPK Signaling in Dendritic Cells' in Leiden on March 7th. Congratulations Dr. Brombacher!

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Jeroen de Ridder interviewed in Nature technology report

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Jeroen Bugter (Maurice lab) successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Mechanisms of WNT-related tumour suppressor mutations in colorectal cancer progression'. Congratulations Dr. Bugter!

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Stefan Prekovic receives Dutch Endocrinology (NVE) prize for best basic science paper of 2023

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Tobias Dansen and Boudewijn Burgering receive ‘Best Master course of the year’ from the Graduate School of Life Sciences (Utrecht) for their course 'Concepts in Cancer Biology'.