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7 aug. 2024

Honours students discover potential immunotherapy for brain cancer in linked research hubs

Honours students from complementary scientific disciplines collaborated to improve immunotherapy for brain cancer. In the first edition of this 20-week interdisciplinary student-led project, cutting-edge research was performed at the Biomedicine and Biotechnology Student Research Hubs, all at the medicine and beta sciences faculties on the Utrecht Science Park.

Honours students discover potential immunotherapy for brain cancer in linked research hubs

23 jul. 2024

In the spotlight: Translational Medicine & Life Sciences

Preparing for tomorrow's healthcare. We do this at UMC Utrecht by focusing on educational innovations and activities within six current themes of our educational strategy 'The New Utrecht School'. One theme is Translational Medicine & Life Sciences. Colleague Marco van Brussel, Medical Physiologist and Associate Professor of Medical Education, is an ambassador* of this theme and explains.

In the spotlight: Translational Medicine & Life Sciences

4 jul. 2024

Women's heart research by students in Research Hubs

Coming up with a solution for the rare heart disease SCAD. And then actually implement your idea to help women with this disease. The students were allowed to do this in the Women's Heart Challenge. They presented their findings in the presence of patients, researchers, physicians, and family members of the students. (text in Dutch)

Women's heart research  by students in Research Hubs

4 jul. 2024

Video: UMC Utrecht: In our house

Niels and Noor talk about the health challenge: woman's heart. Click the link below to go to the video and skip to 22 minutes and 49 seconds

Video: UMC Utrecht: In our house

13 mrt. 2024

How we work together to implement person-centred care

Person-centred care. How do we give substance to this in the cycle of 'understanding together, deciding together, looking back together and improving together'? This was the subject of the sixth symposium on Patient Participation together with patients and healthcare professionals. During the symposium, outgoing chairman Margriet Schneider was put in the spotlight. "If anyone has done a lot for patient participation, it's you."

How we work together to implement person-centred care

16 feb. 2024

New cancer research students and Genmab

A new concept of public-private partnerships. This is the collaboration between a group of bachelor's students of Biomedical Sciences and biotechnology company Genmab. Together, they conduct research into new therapeutic targets for cancer. It is so promising that Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (Health~Holland), together with UMC Utrecht and Genmab, is funding more than 120,000 euros for this research. The final presentation of the bachelor's students took place on 2 February.

New cancer research students and Genmab

8 jun. 2023

Implementation of ideas Long COVID challenge in full swing

In October 2022, more than 400 students of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were challenged with the Long COVID challenge. The goal: to take research into the causes of Long-COVID a step further. At the time – and still today – there was insufficient biomedical research into the causes of Long COVID. The best idea is now being implemented in the Bachelor Research Hub of UMC Utrecht by sixteen students. Watch the video about the challenge and watch the item about it in the Executive Board webinar update of 8 June.

Implementation of ideas Long COVID challenge in full swing

8 jun. 2023

Inaugural lecture Niels Bovenschen: synergy between education, research and society

By stimulating Medicine and Biomedical Sciences students to work together on scientific research early in their education, we can better address complex social problems. That is what Professor Niels Bovenschen stated in his inaugural lecture, which he gave yesterday in Utrecht University's Academy Building. Read more about his educational model in this interview. Your lecture is titled: Synergy between education, research and society. Why is that synergy important?

Inaugural lecture Niels Bovenschen: synergy between education, research and society

6 mei 2023

Students investigate the effect of Long COVID patients' immune systems on muscle cell function

In October 2022, more than 400 students of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were challenged with the Long-COVID challenge. The goal: to take research into the causes of Long-COVID a step further. At the time – and still today – there was insufficient biomedical research into the causes of Long-COVID. The best idea has been researched over the past ten weeks in the Bachelor Research Hub of UMC Utrecht. They shared the results on June 30.

Students investigate the effect of Long COVID patients' immune systems on muscle cell function

10 nov. 2022

Unique idea about Long-COVID developed in the lab

Students of biomedical sciences and medicine will investigate in the laboratory whether the interaction between autoantibodies and immune cells plays a role in the development of Long-COVID symptoms such as fatigue, muscle pain and reduced muscle strength.

Unique idea about Long-COVID developed in the lab

2 jun. 2022

Students BMW and GNK together in an innovative learning and research environment

“Education linked to biomedical research with the patient central. Education in which the students work together in an interdisciplinary way and work practically (also in the lab) with complex socially relevant challenges in health care" "It is education based on the ambition of De Nieuwe Utrechtse School"

Students BMW and GNK together in an innovative learning and research environment

21 okt. 2021

Niels Bovenschen appointed as professor

Niels Bovenschen has been appointed Professor of Biomedical Research-based Education at the Faculty of Medicine as of 15 October. The emphasis of his chair is on education and aims to.. (text in Dutch)

Niels Bovenschen appointed as professor

8 jul. 2021

A New Form of Eduction in the Bachelor Research Hub

Dr. Niels Bovenschen and Michael Schakelaar talk more about a new form of education that they devised for third-year students of Biomedical sciences, in which multidisciplinary collaboration takes place.

A New Form of Eduction in the Bachelor Research Hub

1 jul. 2021

Synergy of Disciplines is a Future of the Education

Niels Bovenschen en Michael Schakelaar see synergy with other disciplines as the future of education (Text in dutch).

Synergy of Disciplines is a Future of the Education

12 mei 2021

Promising Immunotherapy Research for treating Paediatric Brain Tumours

Undergraduate Biomedical Sciences students at UMC Utrecht discovered a way that might make immunotherapy against medulloblastoma - an aggressive brain tumour that mainly occurs in children - possible in the future. In a new form of education, 12 students have been immersed in a Bachelor Research Hub research project for 10 weeks and discovered leads for immunotherapy against this tumour. A great result, according to coordinator Niels Bovenschen and student Matthias Quist. “This tumour desperately needs new treatment. This could be a starting point for it. ” (text in Dutch)

Promising Immunotherapy Research for treating Paediatric Brain Tumours

5 mei 2021

Education should be an essential part of a PhD trajectory

By correctly combining teaching with research practice, PhD students not only become better teachers, but also better researchers, argue Floris Valentijn and Niels Bovenschen. They argue for a hybrid PhD trajectory. (text in Dutch)

Education should be an essential part of a PhD trajectory

14 apr. 2021

Utrecht Education Incentive Fund: Six teacher- and innovation-driven projects awarded

In order to continue to innovate and improve education, Utrecht University annually makes money available for innovative projects that contribute to the development of academic education. The assessment committee of the Utrecht Education Stimulation Fund (USO) has selected six cross-faculty projects that focus on: interdisciplinarity, education for professionals, laboratory education, learning analytics, intercultural competences and selection.

Utrecht Education Incentive Fund: Six teacher- and innovation-driven projects awarded

1 dec. 2020

Towards Bachelor Research Hub Networks to foster transdisciplinary challenge-based education in translational medicine

To facilitate transdisciplinary challenge-based education in Translational Medicine the implementation of a network of Bachelor Research Hubs is envisioned. This network will open possibilities to facilitate undergraduate students from different disciplines to work simultaneously on the same wicked and urgent societal problem within Translational Medicine from different perspectives.

Towards Bachelor Research Hub Networks to foster transdisciplinary challenge-based education in translational medicine

9 dec. 2019

Bachelor Research Hub students investigate PLN heart disease

How do we get rid of PLN? Patients, doctors and researchers challenge third-year students to better understand this hereditary heart muscle disease and to come up with research proposals that will bring us closer to therapy. “I am flabbergasted. These are great potential solutions. ”(text in Dutch)

Bachelor Research Hub students investigate PLN heart disease

13 nov. 2019

Team Doelbewust and Koppie Au Foundations Support New Bachelor Research Hub Project: Medulloblastoma Immunotherapy

Medulloblastomas are malignant brain tumours that mainly occur in young children. The standard therapy currently given is surgery followed by radiation and chemotherapy. Immunotherapy is a relatively new form of therapy and is aimed at activating the immune system to attack cancer cells. This research may in the future lead to a new form of immunotherapy for the treatment of medulloblastoma in children. (full text in Dutch)

Team Doelbewust and Koppie Au Foundations Support New Bachelor Research Hub Project: Medulloblastoma Immunotherapy
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