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Utrecht University has appointed Sanne Abeln as Professor of AI Technology for Life. Abeln and her research group will focus on developing technology in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim of gaining more insight into complex biological systems, such as cells, organisms and ecosystems.

An algorithm that ensures a higher energy yield from wind farms and a study showing that not only fuel consumption but also seasonal effects play an important role in optimising flight trajectories and altitudes.

The Dutch Research Council  (DRC, in Dutch: NWO) has awarded Vici grants to seven researchers from Utrecht University and the UMC Utrecht. They will each receive up to EUR 1.5 million for research. Vici is one of the largest personal scientific grants in the Netherlands. Advanced researchers in the Netherlands can apply for it.

Milene Bonte, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience of Language and Literacy Development at UM's Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, has received an NWO Vici grant of 1.5 million euros.

A consortium of seven partners, led by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Radboud University), has received a €19 million Roadmap grant from NWO.

MERLN's Lorenzo Moroni coordinates a European consortium that develops a technology to create heart ventricles in space using magnetic and acoustic levitation.

Research into the development of heart failure cannot yet be done without animal testing. But thanks to improved techniques, half as many animals are now needed to study the metabolism of heart cells in the development of heart failure.

Scientists Daniel Keszthelyi and Anna Beckers from Maastricht University (UM) are to receive a prestigious European grant for early career researchers: the Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

On 1 November 2022, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam became a partner of the Institute for human organ and Disease Model Technologies (hDMT), a non-profit organisation.

Six researchers at Radboud University receive a Starting Grant of the European Rersearch Council (ERC).

Six researchers at Utrecht University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.  The European Research Council awarded the €1.5 million grant to  Yang Yao , Frederik Verweij , Daan Weits , Niko Wanders , Floris Schuiling and  Daan van Uhm.

Bartels will use this personal grant from NWO to a better understanding of the causes of differences in happiness and wellbeing. People who feel good function better and have more lasting relationships. With advanced data analysis techniques and wellbeing training in large samples with (epi) genetic, metabolic, and environmental data, the pathways to and from wellbeing will be mapped.

A fungus that turns ants into zombies sometimes becomes the victim of other fungal species itself.

Grant allows international team to investigate a fundamental feature of animal cells Cell biologist and Utrecht University-professor Anna Akhmanova is part of an international research team that has been awarded the ERC Synergy Grant.

The orca that stranded and eventually died near Cadzand last Saturday had severe gum inflammation. The female also had inflammation in several internal organs and had not eaten for some time.

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death worldwide. UT researchers Robert Passier, Jeroen Leijten, and partners receive seven million euros for two grants to further develop miniature hearts that can be used for studying heart diseases and testing drugs.

Research Infrastructure for Food, Nutrition and Health blog This blog was written by Jaap van der Meer and Saskia Visser The seas and oceans are considered as a great underutilized source of human food and some recent reports* suggest that marine food production can be increased substantially.

Professor María Suárez Diez has been appointed as the new chairholder at the laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology at Wageningen University & Research.