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Corinde Warmerdam wins Best Poster Award at VSD2023!
Congrats to MSc student Corinde (right), who won the Best Poster Award at the Veterinary Science Day 2023. Corinde presented her work on differentiation of ...
Welcome Iris Gill
Iris joined our group on May 1st as a PhD candidate. She has an MSc degree in Biomedical Sciences and will work on the VHH-MARS project working on targeted ...
Meet us as the annual meeting of the NVMB
Many team members will join the annual meeting of the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology (NVMB) in Zeist on June 1-2nd. Additionally, Marianna Tryfonidou is ...
Lisanne Laagland wins podium presentation award @ TERMIS-EU 2023 Manchester
Congrats to Lisanne, who won the 2nd prize for Best Oral Presentation Award at the TERMIS-EU 2023 conference held in Manchester, UK! Well done!
Meet us at TERMIS-EU 2023 in Manchester!
Lisanne Laagland and Lizette Utomo will travel to Manchester to join the 2023 TERMIS-EU chapter conference in Manchester, UK! Come see our talks at S25 on ...
New publication: Responsible innovation in stem cell research: using responsibility as a strategy
Marianna Tryfonidou and Lizette Utomo contributed to a bioethics paper by Assen et al. on the concept of responsibility in stem cell research. The paper ...
Regenerative Orthopedics at the 2023 Cartilage Biology and Pathology GRC
Michelle Teunissen, Chantal Voskamp, Joost von Hegedus, and Lizette Utomo will travel to Lucca, Italy to join the Gordon Research Conference on Cartilage ...
OA Bio consortium meeting
The consortium meeting of the OA Bio project will be held in Davos, Switzerland on February 16-17th. Marianna Tryfonidou, Joost von Hegedus, and Ann-Sofie ...
Meet us at ORS 2023!
Marianna Tryfonidou and Deepani Poramba-Liyanage tarvelled to Dallas, Texas to attend the ORS. Marianna will speak on Friday Feb 10th at 6.15PM in Session ...
New publication: The catabolic-to-anabolic shift seen in the canine osteoarthritic cartilage treated with knee joint distraction occurs after the distraction period
New publication by Teunissen, et al. in Journal of Orthopaedic Translation on the changes in cartilage physiology after knee joint distraction. Read paper ...
New publication: Sustained release of locally delivered celecoxib provides pain relief for osteoarthritis: a proof of concept in dog patients
New paper bij Tellegen, et al. in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage on a microsphere formulation for the controlled delivery of celecoxib to combat pain in ...
Goodbye, Frances!
After more than 10 years of working in our research group, we are saying goodbye to Frances Bach. Frances is known to be the walking encyclopedia on IVD(D) ...
VSD 2023
The veterinary science day will be held on May 11th! We will have a nice representation from the group. This year, Lisanne Laagland and Lizette Utomo are ...
iPSpine consortium meeting
The iPSpine consortium meeting will be hosted by UCBM in Rome, Italy on March 9-10th. The UU iPSpine team will travel to Rome to update the consortium and ...
Michelle Teunissen wins Bertus Kemp prize for best doctoral thesis
Today at the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology (NVMB), Michelle Teunissen was awarded the 2022 Bertus Kemp prize for Best Doctoral Thesis. Congrats Michelle!
New publication: Synovial membrane-derived mesenchymal progenitor cells from osteoarthritic joints in dogs possess lower chondrogenic-, and higher osteogenic capacity compared to normal joints
A new publication by Teunissen, et al. published in Stem Cells Research & Therapy provides insights in the differentiation capacity of mesenchymal ...
New publication: Hyperosmolar expansion medium improves nucleus pulposus cell phenotype
New paper by Laagland et al in JOR Spine shows the beneficiary effects of hyperosmolarity on in vitro expansion of canine NP cells. Congrats to Lisanne for ...
Vacancies
We are recruiting a PhD candidate and postdoctoral researcher! Closing date: Aug 25th 2022.
Frances Bach wins the ISSLS Research Grant 2022
Frances is the winner of the 2022 ISSLS Research Grant Award sponsored by Taisho Toyama Pharmaceuticals. She will receive a 20 000 USD award to investigate ...
Marianna Tryfonidou wins the TERMIS 2022 Mid Term Career Award
Marianna was awarded with the Mid Term Career Award at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) meeting in Krakow, ...
iPSpine consortium meeting and eCM conference
The iPSpine consortium will finally meet again after 2 years of online meetings in Davos, Switzerland on June 14-15th 2022. The UU-team will afterwards ...
Veterinary Science Day 2021/2022
Marianna Tryfonidou, Frances Bach, Lizette Utomo, Lisanne Laagland, Xiaole Tong, Frank Riemers, Saskia Plomp, and Floor Verdonk attended the Veterinary ...