The LifeSciences@Work Accelerator announced Cyclomics as winning team of the 18th edition of the Venture Challenge at the Dutch Life Sciences Conference 2017. The start up Cyclomics receives € 25,000 for developing a technology to measure cancer recurrence in liquid biopsies, by detection of cancer mutations in blood at...
The Executive Board of Utrecht University has appointed Dr. Alexander Schönhuth as Professor of Genome Data Science....
On 2 October, Eileen Furlong joined the annual UBC symposium in Utrecht as keynote speaker, discussing ‘Genome regulation during developmental transitions: generating robustness and precision’. Furlong is the head of the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL in Heidelberg and a pioneer in applying genome-wide approaches...
Professors Albert Heck and Alexander van Oudenaarden have both been presented with an NWO Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific honour...
Patrick Kemmeren obtained a grant of 572 k euro from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) to investigate cooperative and mutually exclusive genetic interactions in childhood cancer. Multidisciplinary research Cancers arise and progress through the acquirement of combinations of mutations. Genetic interactions are specific combinations of mutations that...