Effects of Education and Income on Incident Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases: a Dutch

Ultra-processed foods and risk of all-cause mortality in renal transplant recipients

Patient-friendly scan could replace biopsy to assess hormone sensitivity in patients with metastatic breast cancer

A specific PET scan (FES-PET) that displays the hormone sensitivity of meta…

Data science in healthcare

Data science is a relatively new field and for many elusive. Nevertheless, …

Symposium: bidirectional collaboration to address Global health challenges.

Discussing the successes and failures of global collaborative initiatives.

Photopharmacology, building bridges between light and life.

Photopharmacology, an emerging research field that uses molecules that are both photoactive and bioactive.

Acute hepatitis in children: no alarm, but careful monitoring

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently reported that there has be…

Multiple pathways of toxicity induced by C9orf72 dipeptide repeat aggregates and G4C2 RNA in a cellular model

Open Science Publication of the Month May: dr. Mark Hipp and his team inves…

HTRIC Innovation booster | AI and Imaging

On Friday 20 May, DASH, together with HTRIC, DHealth and the AI Hub Noord N…

UMCG researchers receive grant for large national research into stress

UMCG researchers Ute Bültmann, Harold Snieder and Els Maeckelberghe are inv…

The Personalised Implants ecosystem received a GO-decision!

We received a GO-decision!

Symposium/Networking event by DASH/Hanze Hogeschool | May 30

DASH/UMCG and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (HanzeHogeschool) ar…

The Open Innovation Ecosystem Personalised Implants received a GO-decision

The continuation of the Open Innovation ecosystem Personalised Implants unt…

Visualization with a fluorescent dye successful in tracing papillary thyroid cancer lymph node metastases

Researchers at the UMCG have been able to detect metastatic cancer cells in…

REGENERATE-IT: learning from animals how to regenerate

Biobank Acutelines: Smart data collection in the emergency room

Internists Acute Medicine Hjalmar Bouma, Jan ter Maaten, and Rijk Gans, cha…

The Dutch Microbiome Project: using large-scale population research to identify what shapes a healthy gut microbiome

A new publication in Nature provides insights into what constitutes a “heal…

Making health data more accessible and better used with a digitally integrated platform: the added value of the Datapoort

In order to be able to offer even better and affordable care in the region,…

Cum Laude PhD thesis Alina Sigavea: "Fluorescent nanodiamonds as free radical sensors in live mammalian cells"

April 6th 2022 Cum Laude promotion Alina Sigavea

Healthy teeth starting from the deciduous teeth

You don't often see children of 6 months in the dental office. Nevertheless…

Do Musicians and Non-musicians Differ in Speech-on-Speech Processing

Open Science Publication of the Month April: If you train with music, will …

First studies in Clinical Research Unit Groningen started

On March 29, the UMCG, ICON (former PRA Health Sciences) and Triade opened …

TRAILS: Your life course in a database

If you are unlucky in life or your parents make a mess of things, does it c…

Dekker grant for UMCG research into heart damage caused by immunotherapy in cancer

Cardiologist in training Wouter Meijers, has received a Dekker grant of 245…

Specific tests and more intensive rehabilitation needed for return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament injury

A series of specific tests that measure important aspects such as muscle st…

Webinar Making an HIV cure available to everyone with HIV as soon as possible

The Global Health Hub Groningen organises a webinar on the development of a…

Prognostic Integrated Image-Based Immune and Molecular Profiling in Early-Stage Endometrial Cancer

Optimum risk stratification in early-stage endometrial cancer combines clin…

A Transcriptionally Distinct CXCL13+CD103+CD8+ T-cell Population Is Associated with B-cell Recruitment and Neoantigen Load in Human Cancer

The chemokine CXCL13 mediates recruitment of B cells to tumors and is essen…

Cardiologist Peter van der Meer receives ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million

Professor of Cardiology Peter van der Meer has been awarded an ERC Consolid…

Databiobank TransplantLines: the importance of a healthy lifestyle in organ transplantation

After receiving a transplant organ, the tension rises. Will the body accept…

Lecture 'Acute leukemie: iedere patiënt is anders' (in Dutch)

An UMCG Medische Publieksacademie lezing (in Dutch)

Registrations Summer School 'Data Science and AI in Health' 2022 now open

Last year the very first, successful, edition of our summer school 'Data Sc…

A novel stRatEgy to improve STRomal health in chronic obstrUCTive pUlmonaRy diseasE (COPD): paving the way for lung tissue regeneration (Restructure-COPD)

GRIAC researcer Roy Woldhuis is awarded a Junior Investigator Grant from the Dutch Lung fund

Vici grant for GRIAC researcher Gerard Koppelman

Early diagnosis of asthma in young children

NORMO2: The effect of NOn-invasive Respiratory support on outcoMe and its risks in SARS-COV-2-related hypoxemic respiratory failure

The overall aim of the NORMO2 project is to investigate the role and risks …

NWO grant: Improving chronic nocturnal noninvasive ventilation in COPD patients: a multimodality approach

Dr. Marieke Duiverman, pulmonologist at the Home Mechanical Ventilation Cen…

Irene Heijink takes over from Reinoud Gosens as programme leader​ of GRIAC

​As of March 1 Reinoud Gosens has stepped down as programme leader of GRIAC…

€2.9 million grant for smart technology to permanently improve lifestyle

NWO has made a €2.9 million grant available for the research project 'healt…

Reproducibility of 3D scanning in the periorbital region

Open Science Publication of the Month February. Reproducibility is an impor…

UMCG starts research into the effects of cannabinoid-based medicine oil with EB patients

The UMCG has started a study into the effect of cannabinoid-based medicine …

The Glycolytic Gatekeeper PDK1 and human acute myeloid leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia remains difficult to treat due to strong genetic het…

Using Structural Equation Modeling to Untangle Pathways of Risk Factors Associated with Incident Type 2 Diabetes

Unraveling the complex pathways of modifiable risk factors related to type …

Vici grant for UMCG researchers Marcel van Vugt and Gerard Koppelman

The Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Vici gra…

Major NWO grant for research with home tests

Detect cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney damage and type 2 diabetes via home tests

Rapid and efficient generation of antigen-specific isogenic T cells from cryopreserved blood samples

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated…

Co-creatie essentieel in autisme-onderzoek

This interview is in Dutch and in English.

UMCG researchers provide the birthday webinar of 40 years NIVA

On 1 March Professor Ute Bültmann, dr. Karin Veldman and dr. Iris Arends of…

Copolymeric biodegradable osteosynthesis systems are safe to use

But degradation takes longer than previously presumed.

New study shows that genes play a role in microbiome composition

In a new study, a group of researchers from the UMCG who have joined forces…

Metabolic complaints are twice as common in patients with bipolar disorder

Metabolic complaints such as elevated cholesterol levels and high blood pre…

Association of diuretic use with increased risk for posttransplantation diabetes

Post-transplantation diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is a major clinical problem i…

More than €2 million grant for research into responsible development and implementation of AI

A consortium of Northern Dutch researchers, social partners, companies and …

Epicardial fat is associated with poor prognosis in patients with heart failure independent of overall obesity

A recent study published in 'Circulation: Heart Failure' by Gijs van Woerde…

Start of national study investigating the effectiveness of a multidomain lifestyle intervention on cognitive function of older people

Today is the official kick-off of the FINGER-NL study, a two-year intervent…

Selenium protects against developing heart failure and death

Research by Nils Bömer of the UMCG shows that people with adequate selenium…

Chemo- and Enantioselective Photoenzymatic Ketone Reductions Using a Promiscuous Flavin-dependent Nitroreductase

Chirality plays an essential role in the development and synthesis of bioac…

VENI grant to study the biology of COPD co-morbidities

Ultra-processed food and incident type 2 diabetes: analysis of the Lifelines cohort

The consumption of ultra-processed food in our daily diet has increased sub…

Health behaviour, working conditions and early exit from paid employment

More and more workers are faced with a chronic disease during their work li…