On 6 October 2023 Professor Irene Heijink gave her inaugural lecture titled: “Let’s Keep in Touch: Strong Cell-cell Contacts for Healthy Lungs” in de academic building of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Lung diseases are a major social problem. Diseases such as asthma and COPD are common and have a major impact on quality of life. In…
The 2022 Chiesi Young Investigator Award from the Netherlands Respiratory Society has been awarded to Mehmet Nizamoglu, third-year PhD student working at the department of Pathology & Medical Biology and GRIAC Research Institute at UMCG. Mehmet investigates the influence of changes in extracellular matrix on lung cells in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
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!!
After a Corona lookdown period of more than 2 months we are finally allowed to go back to the lab and re-start our research activities. We work in a University Medical Center, which is also a big hospital. During the Corona period all research activities were stopped because the hospital did not allow non healthcare…
