UMCG receives a grant of €4.4 million from the Dutch Nationaal Groeifonds to develop new treatments for Asthma and COPD. The aim of the research is to achieve more personalized treatments of asthma and COPD using cell models of the lungs. A special feature of this research is that it will be conducted animal-free. The…
A research consortium led by Irene Heijink from the Department of Pathology & Medical Biology of the UMCG has received a €2.3 million grant from NWO. With this the consortium will conduct research into innovative treatment of COPD. Around 600,000 people in the Netherlands suffer from COPD. To date, this progressive lung disease cannot be…
On 10 June 2022 Mirjam Roffel successfully defended her thesis, titled “MicroRNAs in asthma and COPD; from biomarkers to regulators of disease pathogenesis”. Congratulations Mirjam!!
Our ZonMw proposal is granted for funding! Starting from coming autumn we will be in a consortium investigating the mitochondrial dysfunction in COPD. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) is a prevalent, debilitating lung disease characterized by abnormal repair and irreversible damage in the lungs that currently cannot be treated and is often accompanied by…
Martijn Nawijn talked in the UMCG Medische Publieksacedemie how COVID-19 enters the human body. You can watch his presentation back here (sorry, dutch only)
Many patients who have had COVID-19 continue to have health complaints for a long period of time. The long-term effects of the damage caused by the virus and the body’s response to it is unclear. A team of researchers (including Irene Heijink and Daan Pouwels of the EXPIRE lab in the UMCG), private parties and…
A very nice publication in the NRC, mentioning the work of Martijn Nawijn and Marijn Berg from our group (Sorry, in Dutch only) Er zijn twee specifieke celtypes in de neus geïdentificeerd als waarschijnlijk initiële infectieplaatsen voor het COVID-19 coronavirus. Onderzoekers van het Wellcome Sanger Institute, het Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, de Université Cote d’Azure…
