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New start-up Patholyt will bring AI research into pathology diagnostics

Patholyt is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence in pathology diagnostics and improve the chances of cancer patients worldwide. Patholyt is a spin-off from Radboudumc, a frontrunner in computational pathology research.

ScreenPoint Medical raises $28 million for further development Series C funding led by Insight Partners

ScreenPoint Medical has raised $28 million in a Series C financing. ScreenPoint Medical is a spin-off of the Radboudumc.

Human microbiome could shed light on higher morbidity rate in minoritized populations The link between environmental inequities and disease may lie in the gut

A study published in PNAS is the first to explicitly address the gut microbiome as a pathway to understanding how environmental inequities could lead to health disparities.

PANCAIM aims to significantly improve diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer

PANCAIM: A European consortium to improve pancreatic cancer treatment with artificial intelligence optimizing, integrating genomics and medical imaging.

Dutch Cancer Society grant for AI research on premalignancies of the Fallopian tube

The Dutch Cancer Society decided to award the project ‘Deep learning for improved detection of premalignant lesions in the Fallopian tube’ with a grant of 493K euros. The project is a collaboration between the Radboudumc departments of Pathology, Obstetrics and and Mayo Clinic Florida (US).

Fewer cancer diagnoses during the COVID-19 epidemic in the Netherlands

In a commentary in Lancet Oncology Iris Nagtegaal, theme Tumors of the digestive tract, published, together with Thijs Merkx, as head of the IKNL, the latest data that illustrate the impact of the pandemic on the detection of new cancer patients.

Five ZonMw ‘Off Road’ grants for Radboudumc researchers

Benoit Besson, Annemarie Boleij, Jonne Doorduin, Jorik Nonnekes and Sara Roig Merino have each received an ZonMw ‘Off Road’ grant of €100,000. The grants are intended for biomedical health researchers who dare to go off the beaten track in their search for new insights and unexpected breakthroughs.

KNAW Early Career Award for Geert Litjens

Twelve young researchers received the Early Career Award from KNAW on 4 february. One of them is RIHS researcher Geert Litjens. The Award is aimed at researchers in the Netherlands at the start of their career who are capable of developing innovative and original research ideas.

Prostate cancer can now be diagnosed better using artificial intelligence

RIHS researchers Wouter Bulten and Geert Litjens have developed a ‘deep learning’ system that is better than most pathologists at determining the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. The Artificial Intelligence system taught itself to identify prostate cancer based on data from over 1200 patients.

Awarded KWF grants for Radboudumc researchers

KWF is investing 2.7 million euros in five different studies at Radboudumc. The awards are part of the new round of funding by DCS, in which over 34 million euros will be granted to Dutch cancer research. We congratulate our researchers with this funding and wish them success with their great work.

Kolff grants Dutch Kidney Foundation for Raphaël Duivenvoorden and Jitske Jansen

The Dutch Kidney Foundation supports talented postdocs and physician researchers through providing personal grants that support different phases of a research career. This year Raphaël Duivenvoorden and Jitske Jansen, theme Renal disorders, received a Kolff grant.

Jelle Barentsz's trilogy of educational papers in European Urology

Recently, a trilogy of educational papers by our full professor Jelle Barentsz has been published in European Urology. The publications address what urologists need to know about prostate-MRI.

Four Veni grants for junior RIMLS researchers

Four junior researchers, affiliated to the RIMLS, have each received a Veni grant of 250,000 Euro from NWO. Our researchers received this prestigious grant for their remarkable and original talent and their ability to carry out innovative research.

Francesco Ciompi and Jeroen van der Laak have been awarded a KWF grant

Francesco Ciompi and Jeroen van der Laak have been awarded a KWF grant of € 200K with € 150K for Radboudumc for the PROACTING project (PRedicting neOAdjuvant Chemotherapy Treatment response with deeplearnING).

Lieneke Steeghs about the PATH project: Predictive Analysis for Therapy

Read here the article 'PATH makes predictive molecular diagnostics in cancer unambiguous', of Lieneke Steeghs, theme Tumors of the digestive tract, that was published on the website of ZonMw.

A personal touch of Inge van Oort

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: Inge van Oort.

Valentine’s day spectacle at the Radboud Research Rounds

This year’s Valentine’s day in the Radboudumc was focused on the RRR of the Tumors of the Digestive Tract. In the biannual Paper Award session the big prize went to Daniel Garza from the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, for his paper on “the environmental metabolome”.

A personal touch of Iris Nagtegaal

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: Iris Nagtegaal.

A personal touch of Blanca Scheijen

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: Blanca Scheijen.

Christine Mohrmann stipendium for Nikki Knijn

The goal of the stipendium is to enable junior female scientists to perform research abroad and to encourage them to pursue a scientific career in academia.

Science QUIZ theme Tumors of the digestive tract a big success!

All PhDs sent in a quiz question about their projects and explained the right answer in a one minute pitch. The overall winner was Elise de Savornin Loman from the department of Surgery.

Deep learning identifies tumor-associated stroma in breast histopathology

According to a recent paper of Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, Jeroen van der Laak and colleagues, deep learning based analysis of digitized microscopic images could accurately identify tumor-associated morphological alterations in the stroma neighboring breast cancer.

A personal touch of Laura Miesen

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: Laura Miesen.

Katrien Grünberg appointed Professor of Pathology

Katrien Grünberg has been appointed as Professor of Pathology at Radboud University/Radboud university medical center effective as of March 1st 2018.

A personal touch of Minke Smits

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: Minke Smits

CD44 drives crescentic glomerulonephritis and FSGS

Publication in Kidney International by Jennifer Eymael, Bart Smeets and Johan van der Vlag.

Bacteria play a critical role in driving colon cancers

Two species may work together to drive tumor formation in hereditary colon cancer syndrome and sporadic colon cancer.

A personal touch of Annemarie Boleij

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: Annemarie Boleij.

Women’s Cancer OOR-ON Research award for Nicole Visser, PhD and resident of pathology

Four Veni grants for young Radboudumc researchers

Four researchers from Radboudumc have been awarded a Veni grant the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These grants provide highly promising young scientists with the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas during a period of three years.

Societal impact PhD awards

PATH (predictive Analysis for THerapy)

The next step in cancer staging

Publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.