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Willeke Daamen ratified as ETRS board member

Willeke Daamen, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine appointed as board member of The European Tissue Repair Society (ETRS).

Sonlicromanol seems promising for certain cancers Khondrion announces publication in PLOS ONE of new research

Khondrion announces publication in PLOS ONE of new research showing normalisation of prostate cancer stem cell mPGES-1 overexpression and inhibition of cancer spheroid growth by sonlicromanol’s active metabolite.

Nico Sommerdijk appointed professor of Bone Biochemistry

Werner Koopman 25 years at Radboudumc celebrating online

Werner Koopman completed his 25 years at Radboudumc. Biochemistry sent him a cake at home and celebrated this special moment during COVID-19 in a unique way.

Grant for early detection of ovarian cancer

The Department of Biochemistry (Toin van Kuppevelt/Willeke Daamen), together with the Department of Gynecology, has been awarded a grant of 144 kEuro for the development of an assay for the early detection of ovarian cancer.

3 million euro for Marie Curie ITN SkinTERM

The European Union has provisionally awarded a grant of more than 3 million euro to the SkinTERM project “Skin Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: From skin repair to regeneration”. SkinTERM is coordinated with Willeke Daamen as coordinator and Toin van Kuppevelt as vice coordinator.

FET-OPEN grant for Toin van Kuppevelt and Willeke Daamen

A grant of 592 kEuro has been awarded to Toin van Kuppevelt and Willeke Daamen, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine, for a Horizon 2020 FET-OPEN project entitled “Heparin and heparan sulphate: from sequence determination to therapeutic strategies for Parkinson’s disease”.

Plugging the gap ZonMw/Health Holland grant

RIMLS en RIHS researchers Willeke Daamen, Frank Vandenbussche, Joris van Drongelen, Toin van Kuppevelt and Janneke Grutters have been granted 1.3 million euro for the development and evaluation of a new technology to prevent premature rupture of fetal membranes (iPPROM).

Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds grant to investigate patient stratification in myotonic dystrophy

RIMLS researchers Rick Wansink and Roland Brock, both theme Nanomedicine, received a € 280,000 grant from the Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds.

Charity event for children with a diaphragmatic defect

For the third year in a row, Rotary Ridderkerk - de Waal organised a golf tournament, dinner and auction to raise research funds for children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. At the end of the day, a cheque worth € 51,000 was handed over to Sanne Botden and Willeke Daamen.

A personal touch of Kartika Hapsari

In order to promote interaction amongst colleagues within RIMLS, we have a ‘personal touch’ series setting employees in the spotlight. A light-hearted manner to learn about the colleagues you know and those you don’t. This week: Kartika Hapsari.

RIMLS PhD grants awarded to eight RIMLS (j)PI's

Recently, RIMLS held an internal call for Radboudumc junior researcher (PhD) positions. Congratulations for all the awardees and all the best in conducting the research projects.

NWO grant for a tissue-generating patch to close diaphragmatic defects

Willeke Daamen and Toin van Kuppevelt, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine, were recently awarded a 690 k€ grant by NWO, domain Applied & Engineering Sciences, for the development of advanced patches for closure of diaphragmatic defects in children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

NWO grant to develop new biomaterials for improved regeneration of bone defects

Sander Leeuwenburgh, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine, and Roland Brock, theme Nanomedicine, were recently awarded with a grant of 581 k€ by NWO, domain Applied & Engineering Sciences, to develop new biomaterials for improved regeneration of bone defects.

A warm welcome for a new RIMLS colleague Nico Sommerdijk

As of 1 August we welcome Nico Sommerdijk as our new colleague at the RIMLS. Nico will join the department of Biochemistry, with his research group “Biochemistry of Mineralized Tissues”.

Understanding the inner architecture of a nanomedicine

The group of Roland Brock, theme Nanomedicie, and colleagues, used superresolution microscopy to quantitatively image the structure and composition of peptide – messenger RNA nanoparticles and related this to biological activity. They have published their findings in Nano Letters.

Grant to study mitochondrial morphofunction in Parkinson’s disease

Werner Koopman, theme Mitochondrial diseases, received 400,000 euro as a member of the PD-MitoQUANT consortium. The latter is an EU-funded Innovative Medicines Initiative research project that will improve our understanding of Parkinson’s so that better treatments can be developed in the future.

A personal touch of Elianne Bulthuis

In order to promote interaction amongst colleagues within RIMLS, we have a ‘personal touch’ series setting employees in the spotlight. A light-hearted manner to learn about the colleagues you know and those you don’t! This week: Elianne Bulthuis

Willeke Daamen elected secretary of NBTE

The Netherlands society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering aims to promote the interests of biomaterials science and tissue engineering in the Netherlands and to stimulate cooperation between universities, institutions and industries in these domains.

TURBO grants for four medical-technical research projects

Four TURBO grants were awarded to new technical-medical research proposals. The grants are part of the TURBO program, a collaboration between Radboudumc and the University of Twente.

Muscle fibrosis in the soft palate: delivery of cells, growth factors and anti-fibrotics

Hans Von den Hoff, recently published an article in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews together with Willeke Daamen and Toin van Kuppevelt, all from the theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine.

Poster prize Lars Damen at 10th European Elastin Meeting

At the 10th European Elastin Meeting, Lars Damen, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine, received the early-stage researcher award for his poster entitled “Development of tools to study the sulfation pattern of heparan sulfate involved in elastic fiber biology”.

Biodegradable nanoreactors demonstrate ROS shielding in human-complex-I-deficient fibroblasts

Researchers of the Radboudumc and colleagues have successfully developed enzyme-loaded polymersomal nanoreactors capable of undergoing cellular integration in a controlled fashion and, subsequently, function as synthetic organelles.

Google SOC grants for Robin Kohze and Samuel Schmidt

Robin Kohze and Samuel Schmidt, theme Nanomedicine, have been awarded two Google Summer of Code Grants for the mentorship of two projects in the category “R projects for statistical computing“.

Extracellular matrix targeting of chemotherapeutic drugs

A recent review in the Journal of Controlled Release by René Raavé, Toin van Kuppelt and Willeke Daamen, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine.

A personal touch of Wouter Verdurmen

In order to promote interaction amongst colleagues within RIMLS, we have a ‘personal touch’ series setting employees in the spotlight. A light-hearted manner to learn about the colleagues you know and those you don’t! This week: Wouter Verdurmen.

Willeke Daamen joins NBTE board

NBTE promotes the interests of biomaterials science and tissue engineering in The Netherlands.

Sequencing of polysaccharides

In Scientific Reports, a novel method is described to sequence glycosaminoglycans.

New drug delivery systems published by Wouter Verdurmen

These results are recently published in Scientific Reports.

Fundraiser for diaphragmatic patch for children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia

At the end of the day, a check worth € 27,130 was handed over to the Radboudumc and Platform CHD

Frapbot – a web application for FRAP data analysis released by Robin Kohze and Samuel Schmidt

Frapbot a new open source R-based web application for the analysis of Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) data.

Werner Koopman appointed as Editorial Board member of Elsevier's IJBCB

He will edit a special section of the journal focusing on organelles.

Prestigious Google SOC grant for Robin Kohze and Samuel Schmidt

Systematic review in European Urology (IF 15)