Utrecht University provides additional funding to Utrecht Bioinformatics Center
The Executive Board of Utrecht University has granted the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center an additional four years of support to further strengthen and position bioinformatics in Utrecht. So what do we want to do for the next four years? First of all, we want to continue our good work in strengthening the bioinformatics community, infrastructure, expertise […]
Life Sciences Work Accelerator supports Cyclomics start up
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 single-molecule sensitivity. This way the start up, initiated by Wigard […]
Utrecht University reinforces interdisciplinary bioinformatics and data science research
The Executive Board of Utrecht University has appointed Dr. Alexander Schönhuth as Professor of Genome Data Science.
EMBL professor Eileen Furlong: keynote on Genome Regulation
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 for understanding molecular mechanisms in complex, multicellular organisms. Three Dutch […]
Spinoza Prizes for Albert Heck and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Proteins and the role they play in our cells Albert Heck’s research focuses on identifying all of the proteins in the human body and the role they play in our cells. This provides entirely new insights for research into disease and health, and offers opportunities for the development of new and better pharmaceuticals. As a […]