Vidi grant for Vivian Weerdesteyn

Another publication of the successful Dutch collaborative group on pancreatitis research with substantial contribution from Radboudumc researchers, Harry van Goor and Kees van Laarhoven.

In European journal of cancer Janneke Ham and colleagues showed that prophylactic antibiotics in locally advanced head and neck cancer patients treated with chemoradiotherapy did not reduce the incidence of (aspiration) pneumonias, but did reduce hospitalisations and tended to be cost-effective.

In The European respiratory journal Jakko van Ingen and Sanne Zweijpfenning showed that 40% of patients diagnosed with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease also meet diagnostic criteria for chronic pulmonary aspergillosis.

Jakko van Ingen received the ESCMID Young Investigator Award for his groundbreaking work on nontuberculous mycobacterial disease.

During the annual meeting of the Japanese Radiological Society in Yokohama Jelle Barentsz became honorary member.

Ellen van den Bogaard, theme Inflammatory diseases, leads the research on the experimental validation and functional analysis of identified biomarkers by using advanced organotypic skin models and receives a grant of €258,000.