Vidi grant for Vivian Weerdesteyn

Hospital pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist Rob Aarnoutse is appointed as professor in ‘Translation pharmacology of antimicrobial agents, in particular drugs for tuberculosis’ at Radboud University / Radboudumc, starting 16 November 2020.

During the 148th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board meeting, Member States passed a game-changing resolution on oral health. WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called it a “landmark resolution”.

New platform to provide advice on policy, create an interdisciplinary network of early career scientists, and promote career development.

In a paper recently accepted by Clinical Cancer Research, Daan Boreel, together with Paul Span, Sandra Heskamp, Gosse Adema and Jan Bussink, reviews the therapeutic potential of decreasing the lack of oxygen (hypoxia) often found in solid tumors.

An additional external-beam radiation dose delivered directly to the tumor can benefit the prospects of men with non-metastatic prostate cancer, without causing additional side effects. The risk of relapse within five years for these men is smaller than for men who did not receive this boost.

Several researchers at the Radboudumc have received grants to start new studies, including on rare diseases, liver disease and cancer metastases. These are grants from the Dutch Research Council, European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases and the Gastric Liver Disease Foundation.