NWO ENW-XS grant for Vivek Bhardwaj
UBC member Vivek Bhardwaj has received an NWO Open Competition ENW-XS grant to pursue bold, innovative research on identifying and studying the rarest cells in the human body using microfluidics and genomics. These fast-track grants support breakthrough ideas with up to €50,000 in funding. Read more about the nine UU and UMC researchers awarded this grant here
Real-Time view of DNA repair
Tuncay Baubec and Richard Cardoso da Silva have developed a fluorescent probe that lets researchers watch DNA damage and repair unfold in real time inside living cells and even in whole organisms. The tool offers a much clearer view of how cells maintain their genomes and enables experiments that were not possible before. Their paper was recently […]
BioBeyond_NL consortium secures grant
The research consortium BioBeyond_NL has secured 17 million euros from NWO’s National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure, with over half of the funding going to Utrecht. BioBeyond_NL, led by prof. Ron Heeren from Maastricht University, is a collaboration between Maastricht University, Utrecht University, Leiden University Medical center and Radboud Medical Center. The consortium will develop cutting-edge infrastructure to study how sugars […]
Recent publications by UBC members
Below, you can find an overview of publications by UBC principal investigators during the period from July 2025 – September 2025. In vitro processes alter the embryonic disc epigenome and transcriptome in the pre-implantation elongated bovine embryo, Biology of Reproduction, June 2025, Belen Rabaglino’s group Biomarker Modelling in Omics Technologies Using Symbolic Regression (Poster). Proceedings of the […]
HADDOCK reaches 66,000 users
HADDOCK, the molecular docking platform developed in the Bonvin Lab, has now reached over 66,000 users in 174 countries.