Gwenda F. Vasse, a PhD candidate from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxocology and at the Department of Pharmacology but currently working as a Post-Doc in the EXPIRE group succesfully defended her thesis titled “Macrophage-Matrix interactions orchestrating the fibrotic respons?” on 7 June 2021. Congratulations Gwenda! (and congratulations to her supervisors,…
PhD Defense of Laura Hesse
Laura Hesse, a PhD candidate from EXPIRE group, has successfully defended her thesis on March 02, 2021. Well done Laura, congratulations !
Medische Publieksacedemie
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)
What are the long-term consequences of a COVID-19 infection?
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…
Martijn Nawijn and his team are the 2020 winners of the NRS Crossover Science Award
Dr. ir. Martijn Nawijn from our group (and his team) won the NRS Crossover Science Award 2020 for his work on the Lung Cell Atlas. It describes the healthy human lungs, and the disease-associated changes in the cellular landscape of the airway wall in patients with childhood-onset asthma. The combination of innovative single-cell analyses…
Back to the lab!
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…
Logo Competition: …and the Winner is
Below the winning logo(‘s) for the EXPIRE logo competition: 3rd place: designed by Mugdha Joglekar 2nd place: designed by Marissa Wisman The Winner: designed by Mehmet Nizamoglu
Wat maakt dit coronavirus zoveel gevaarlijker dan zijn voorgangers?
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…
Logo competition
We are having a logo competition for the new website running. So far we have the following contributions: LOGO 1: LOGO 2: LOGO 3: LOGO 4: LOGO 5: LOGO 6: LOGO 7: LOGO 8: LOGO 9: LOGO 10: LOGO 11: LOGO 12: