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NWO and ZonMW have granted Carl Figdor, Jack Fransen, and Joost te Riet €588,000 for the purchase of a combined Atomic Force/Confocal Microscope (25% will be matched by the UMC St Radboud). These NCMLS researchers will initially use this microscope to study ‘mechanotransduction’.

Karen Buysse has obtained an EMBO long-term fellowship (2 years) in order to perform post-doctoral research at the division of Molecular Genetics of the Department of Human Genetics under supervision of Prof. Hans van Bokhoven.

In a recent publication in Diabetes, researchers of Medical Microbiology and Tumor Immunology (Groups of Frank van Kuppeveld and Gosse Adema) investigated the response of human dendritic cells (DCs) to enterovirus-infected pancreatic cells.

Suzanne Heemskerk (Intensive Care), Heleen Arts (Human Genetics), Joris Robben (Physiology) and Angelique Rops (Nephrology Research Laboratory) have been awarded a Kolff grant (150-200,000 Euro) for a 2-4-year project by the Dutch Kidney Foundation.

Researchers from the departments of Medical Microbiology, Internal Medicine, and Experimental Urology describe a failure to find evidence for a role of a new human retrovirus in Dutch patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in the British Medical Journal.

NWO and ZonMW have announced today that they will fund with €13 M three Dutch Centres for Systems Biology, including the Centre for Systems Biology and Bioenergetics (CSBB) at the RUNMC. The CSBB will receive € 4.5 M to study mitochondrial energy metabolism.

Dr. Tom Nijenhuis, clinical fellow in Nephrology and researcher at the Departments of Nephrology and Physiology, received a € 275.000,- Ruby Diabetes Research Grant from the Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation.

In a recent publication in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers of Otorhinolaryngology (group of Hannie Kremer) and Human Genetics have identified novel gene mutations in a form of nonsyndromic hearing loss.

Using revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, researchers at the Department of Human Genetics have identified a genetic cause of a hereditary retinal disorder called, Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR).

The Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) has awarded Carl Figdor the Koningin Wilhelmina research prize 2009 (KWO). The 2 M Euro prize will be used to perform multidisciplinary research into the role of the immune system in the fight against cancer.

The NCMLS seeks to achieve greater insights into the complexity of living cells with the purpose of obtaining a multifaceted knowledge of both normal and pathological processes.......... Read more