Year review
Regenerative Medicine Utrecht
2019
“We are a growing Regenerative Medicine
Community without boundaries!”
We welcomed our RM-colleagues from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
at RMCU!
The official part
The boards signing the contract
The PhD students of the H2020 funded
Marie S. Curie COFUND doctorate project RESCUE
started their work at RMCU!
UMC Utrecht (coordinator), Utrecht University and the Hubrecht Institute offered 29 PhD positions on REgenerative medicine & Stem Cells in UtrEcht.
Parels van het Park
On the Utrecht Science Park we work on innovative solutions to social issues such as a longer and healthier life and sustainability.
The Utrecht Science Park Foundation, has developed a series of 5 films about inspiring collaboration and groundbreaking research in the Utrecht Science Park
All experts in the field of regenerative medicine and stem cell research are situated on one location at the Utrecht Science Park, in the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht (RMCU) click here to watch the video
Installation of the RMU Board
Prof. Marianne Verhaar Prof. Jos
Malda Prof. Roos
Masereeuw
Prof. Paul Coffer Prof. Jeffrey
Beekman Prof. Marianna
Tryfonidou Prof. Eva
van Rooij
One Health, One Medicine
…and two new professors!
We celebrated the double inauguration of
Prof. Marianna Tryfonidou, Professor in Regenerative Orthopedics, and Prof. Björn Meij, Professor in Surgery for Companion Animals!
Our new professors
Our new professors
Prof. Jeffrey
Beekman!
Professor
in Cellular Disease Models
…all good things come in threes!
Our new Associate Professors
Sabine Fuchs Karin Gerritsen Linda van Laake
Our new PI’s
Magdalena Lorenowicz
Toine Rosenberg
Ralph Sakkers
ArthroSave
is one of 10 winners of the
“Academic Startup Competition”
This was announced by a professional jury in the presence of State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate, Mona
Keijzer!
AWARDS
We received lots of
Introductory courses on Regenerative Medicine and
Biofabrication
nominated for
“best master course by GSLS”
It is nice to see that students highly appreciate the courses,
coordinated by Dr. Joost Fledderus
Dr. Jaqueline Ablas
AWARDS
Utrecht became
Research Hotspot
to fight
Rheumatoid Arthritis!
ReumaNederland granted
Prof. Dr. Floris Lafeber (UMCU), Prof. Dr. René van Weeren (UU, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine)
and Prof. Dr. Ir. Jos Malda
(UMCU) € 1.8 Million for their excellent research.
AWARDS
AWARDS
Prof. Jeffrey Beekman
won the prestigious
Prix Galien
Research Award 2019!
AWARDS
Best
presentation at ISCOMS for Marleen Kristen
The Hofvijverkring supported
Riccardo Levato and
Mylene de Ruijter, for research exchanges
abroad!
Best presentation at the Annual Dutch
Stem Cell Meeting For Suze Jansen
AWARDS
Renee Maas and
Tom Bracco Gartner won the
European Crazy Idea Call from the
Genetic Heart Disease Foundation
Elise Kessler won the
Netherlands Heart Institute research
fellowship!
Anne Metje van Genderen received the
Biofabrication travel award!
AWARDS
Marieke Roefs
won the best poster prize during the
Meeting of the
Netherlands Society for Extracellular Vesicles
(NLSEV)!
3 MDR grants went to Anne Metje van Genderen &
Carl Schuurmans , as well as
Miguel Dias Castilho and
Riccardo Levato
to perform research abroad!
Magdalena Lorenowicz
Kika Foundation grant
to study the role of MSC and their
secretome in the repair of intestinal tissue
Saber Amin Yavari
NWO take-off phase I grant
to develop and valorize innovative 3D printed metal implants
Jeroen Pasterkamp
NWO Gravitation grant
BRAINSCAPES
GRANTS
Miguel Castilho
& Alain van Mil
Horizon 2020
BRAVƎ: Engineering a biological device to support a sick heart
Kerstin Schneeberger
Jubileumfonds
to develop an animal-free alternative for matrigel
GRANTS
VISITS
Prof. Danny Kelly and his team from Dublin, Ireland, visited our orthopedics group to discuss current progress in the
biofabrication of joints.
Prof. Roel Nusse, discoverer or Wnt, visited us thanks to the Hofvijverkring.
The interest in his talks was very high!
We were excited about a lot of
RMCU VISITS
31 January (major) financial donors from the kidney foundation visited the RMCU
On April 3 there was a working visit from delegates board of directors from the KU Leuven
On June 11 there was a visit from communication advisors of the municipality of Utrecht
Joe Bonventre
Associate Center Director
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and member of the International Scientific Advisory
Board of the MDR gravity program
Arno Hoes
The new dean and member of the board of directors of the UMCU
RMCU VISITS
Around 140 professors hopped on their bikes
to visit primary schools in Utrecht,
including RMU professors Marianne Verhaar, Marianna Tryfonidou,
Roos Masereeuw, Jos Malda, Joost Sluijter.
VISITS
“Meet the Professor”
Prof. Roel Nusse, Stanford University,
US
Dr. Tiziano Serra,
AO Research Institute
Davos, Switzerland
Dr. Jeffrey Price,
Scintillon Institute San Diego, US
Dr. Alireza Dolatshahi-
Pirouz, DTU Nanotech,
Denmark
Dr. Nuria Montserrat,
IBEC, Spain
Prof. Edit Buzas,
Semmelweis University,
Budapest, Hungary
RMU SEMINARS
All these renowned international speakers found their way to RMCU to inspire us!
More Knowledge with Fewer Animals (MKMD) on Tour:
Joining Forces for Animal-Free Innovations
5 year anniversary of UMC Utrecht Mobility Clinic – hebben we het onder de knie?
We had various
to attend!
EVENTS
BONE RM UMCU/CUHK
Opportinuties Utrecht-Hongkong
Our
Meet Your Neighbours Symposium
was a great success:
“We are a growing Regenerative Medicine
Community without boundaries!”
Regenerative Medicine
by Dr. Bart Spee & Dr. Koen Braat Advanced In Vitro Models (AIM)
by Dr. Bart Spee & Ouafa Dahri
3D Printing andBiofabrication by Dr. Riccardo Levato &
Prof. Jos Malda
Mini-Organs at the
Weekend of Science
With 2500 participants, the Weekend of Science
was a great success!
Thanks to all contributors!
RMU was part of the new
exhibition in the
They presented the wonderful
world of
organoids and 3D printing to
thousands of curious visitors!
We were in the News a lot !
… this is only a selection!
We even went !
Anita Krouwels
Chemical and physical factors to regenerate the nucleus pulposus
Anna Tellegen
Targeting pain and degeneration in
osteoarthritis and intervertebral disc disease
Maaike Braham
In Vitro Bone Marrow Niches for Hematopoietic Cells
Karin de Winter de Groot
CFTR - from function to phenotype
Jorik van Rijn
Intestinal Organoids as a Patient-Specific Model System for Congenital Diarrheal Disorders
We got new Doctors!
Maurits Olthof
Kickstarting BMP-2 Tissue Engineering
Sarah Boers
Organoid Technology: An Identification and Evaluation of the Ethical Challenges
Claartje Meddens
Regulatory DNA and stem cells in complex genetic diseases
Souzanna Varderidou
Quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics in the study of iPSC-derived neurons and disease
Rafael A. Vindas Bolanos
Cell-free regenerative medicine (RM) strategies for cartilage and bone put to the test in the
challenging quine in vivo model
We got new Doctors!
Nerys Williams
Characterisation of human pancreatic organoids: navigating towards islets of Langerhans
Sjaak Jong
Bottom-up development of urea sorbents for dialysate regeneration
Wouter Gathier
Advanced therapeutic strategies for ischemic heart failure
Nikae te Moller
Does cartilage damage doom the joint?
Imke Rudnik-Jansen
Applicability of corticosteroid releasing microspheres in degenerative joint diseases
We got new Doctors!
Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cells UMCU Research quality scored
EXCELLENT
based on the Standard Evaluation Protocol for Public Research Organisations (SEP)
We look back at a great year, special thanks to all researchers and students in
the RM Utrecht community!
