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Since 2020, Delft Bioengineering Institute (BEI) organizes a cross-campus call for interdisciplinary research projects in the field of bioengineering.

This year, seven Utrecht researchers will receive an ERC Consolidator Grant. The European Union provides this subsidy of an average of 2 million euros to researchers who have made their mark in science.

This year's AI Summit Brainport focused on human-centered AI and its alignment with human values and goals.

Richard Bartfai (Radboud University), Bert Windhorst (Amsterdam UMC) and Clemens Kocken (BPRC) have received a Synergy Grant (of 11 million euros) from the European Research Council (ERC) for exploration of hypnozoites, malaria-causing parasites that can enter a dormant state in the liver.

Making solar cells more efficient, and developing sustainable insecticides with a zombie-making fungus: as of September, a second group of PhD candidates will start their research funded by the Science for Sustainability community at Utrecht University.

In May 2023, Delft Bioengineering Institute organized the fifth edition of BioDate: the 'speed date' event where BEI PIs can meet and explore possibilities for collaboration. This year, the participating PIs have generated thirteen new interdisciplinary MSc projects! Three of the teams have already recruited a student for the project, the others will hopefully follow soon, so BEI can transfer the grant money of €2500 and the projects can start.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grants to eight researchers from the UvA and Amsterdam UMC.

Twenty-two promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (DRC).

Twenty-three promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (DRC).

Our body moves seemingly effortlessly, yet the way in which the brain controls our movements is still not well understood from a scientific perspective.

Multi-omics research provides a more fundamental understanding of how tumor cells adapt to hormonal therapies.

The Dutch Research Council has awarded thirteen experienced, Utrecht-based researchers a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros.

Instead of handing out a fat thesis, Elles Raaijmakers drew an accessible comic book about her research on electric current and brain cells.

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.