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Combining digital adherence technology and therapeutic drug monitoring for personalised tuberculosis care

We speak with researchers Job van Boven and Daan Touw about medication adhe…

Comprehensive medical PhD dissertation presents predictors of inflammatory bowel disease

Demand driven research and patient participation

At the UMCG we support and promote the principles of Open Science. One of t…

Vitamin K inhibits vascular stiffness in kidney transplant recipients

UMCG Lead Collaborations to advance Precision Medicine in Chronic Kidney Disease

'ChatGPT, write an article about ChatGPT'

ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI that can generate hum…

AMIRA: Augmented Minimally Invasive Robot-Assisted Mesorectal Excision

UMCG presents four Innovation Awards

During the UMCG’s New Year’s Reception on Tuesday January 10 2023, multiple innovative and ambitious UMCG emp…

AI Symposium DASH & Hanze University of Applied Sciences | February 3

Come and network with like-minded AI enthusiasts at our symposium on 3 Febr…

Bloedverlies meten tijdens een badbevalling

Badbevallingen zijn in de laatste jaren populairder geworden. Het water wer…

NWO grant for Healthy AI Lab: Better detection and treatment of prostate cancer

NWO is putting 25 million euros into the ROBUST (Trustworthy AI-based syste…

Get rid of the pager, time for the social snack

Lifelines NEXT provides a foundation for the healthy future of mother and child

An important foundation for health development is built during pregnancy an…

3 UMCG studies receive grant from KWF

3 UMCG studies receive a grant from KWF.

UMCG treats first cancer patient with stem cells from own salivary gland

Tissue specific stem cell transplantation should prevent a dry mouth after radiotherapy.

New UMCG research programme 'Digital Healthcare' to boost collaboration and digital innovations in healthcare

Digitalisation is playing an increasingly important role in supporting impr…

€2.5 million Heart Foundation grant for atrial fibrillation research

UMCG Cardiology will receive a €2.5 million grant from the Dutch Heart Foun…

The radiologist as guide in the healthcare landscape

Without measures, the demand for care, the personnel needed and the costs w…

Join the Young Academy Groningen!

The Young Academy is inviting young research staff to apply to become a member of the Young Academy Groningen.

NWO grant for consortium led by Irene Heijink

In this program, researchers will package stem cells and/or drugs for tissue repair into an ultra-thin hydrog…

Mitotic processing of under-replicated DNA can cause Sister Chromatid Exhanges

The MYC oncogene can suppress inflammatory signaling

In this study, we investigated inflammatory signaling in TNBCs, and discove…

How a study that started twenty-five years ago can make the difference in preventing chronic kidney problems

25 years ago, residents of the city Groningen were called upon to participa…

Barbro Melgert explains about health effects of microplastics

RTL's Koffietijd invited Associate professor Pharmaceutical Immunology Barb…

New algorithm is able to diagnose allergy in children

A new algorithm is able to diagnose allergy in children with the help of ar…

Marco Harmsen joins the Personalised Implants Ecosystem

Dapagliflozin reduces risk for hospitalization in patients with CKD with or without diabetes

Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, reduced …

Exploratory project for UMCG learning line Data Science, AI and eHealth launched

Digitalisation is going to play an increasing role within healthcare, which…

Impact of COVID-19 social distancing measures on lung transplant recipients

A research about the decline in overall respiratory virus infections is ass…

Omgaan met (eigen) autisme - podcast

Voor het project "Omgaan met (het eigen) autisme" zijn veertien mensen met …

Whole body scan shows the complexity of the immunotherapy response

Immune checkpoint inhibitors activate the body’s immune system against tumo…

Lifelines NEXT part of a newly funded Horizon Europe research project studying human immune system development in early life

The INITIALISE project received almost seven million euros of EU funding fr…

Patients: GP accessibility pressured by COVID-19 measures

Wetenschapswinkels: een brug tussen universiteit en samenleving

Een wetenschapswinkel. Wat koop je daar? Een broodje kennis? Een wisdom-smo…

Detecting diseases earlier using artificial intelligence

Lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascula…

Mushroom treatment offers hopeful results against depression

UMCG-researchers found that psilocybin (mushrooms) provided a positive effect on patients with depression. 

Pilot 'AI in radiology training' resounding success

AI can no longer be ignored in radiology and, with proper integration into …

Artificial intelligence and video as a resource to timely discover anomalies in premature babies

To learn more about the development and most sufficient treatment of premat…

Award for Maria Isabel Patiño Vargas

Award for Maria Isabel Patiño Vargas in the category of ‘Highest Research Impact’ during the "Medellín Invest…

The smart power of the network | Recap AI congress October 28

When applying AI, collaboration is key. But how do you actually integrate A…

Wiro Niessen new dean and member of the UMCG Board of Directors

On 1 February 2023, Wiro Niessen will be appointed Dean of the Faculty of M…

Jaarbericht Wetenschapswinkels 2021

Het jaarbericht van alle Wetenschapswinkels is weer gemaakt. Dit geeft een mooi overzicht van de projecten va…

How did the visitors of Stichting (On)gestoord experience the corona crisis?

Many people had to deal with loneliness during the corona crisis. What was …

DASH Webinar | Federated Learning: The Future of Digital Health | November 8

Federated learning makes it possible to train AI models without anyone seei…

AI & Robotics in Healthcare | DASH Sparkle Event | November 17

Experience for yourself the possibilities of AI & robotics in healthcare at…

Webinar Scaling-up community based NCD prevention and control: focus on quality

Join this skills building webinar in which the SUNI-SEA consortium will sha…

The Achille’s heel of chromosomal instable cancers

This month we focus on interdisciplinary collaboration with the Open Scienc…

What does the future of junior academics look like?

Our research culture is changing faster than ever: The way we measure and a…

Iris Sommer receives Huibregtsenprijs for ‘Unequal medical treatment of men and women’

The influence of diet, gut microbiome and genetics on blood and health

Family meetings take the pressure off informal carers and reduce the need for professional home care

Ultraprocessed food consumption and kidney function decline in a population-based cohort in the Netherlands

Lifestyle patterns and incident type 2 diabetes in the Dutch lifelines cohort study

#1 Gender gap in the research landscape – UMCG Research Talk

Listen to the first episode of UMCG Research Talk where we discuss the gend…

Nanoscale MRI to study cell response

What happens if we share outcomes openly, make data public, publish the com…

What is the disease burden of genital warts in Dutch general practice?

Patients perform well at work after a kidney transplantation

Patients who have undergone a kidney transplantation appear to perform well at work.

2 large EU-grants for UMCG Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

The Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology of the UMCG has receiv…

Aging affects cardiometabolic risk factor differences between men and women

In a large study, Daria Zhernakova and Jingyuan Fu of the Department of Gen…

Results of two important studies on melanoma-treatment published

Researchers at UMCG have made important contributions to two extensive and …