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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.
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.
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)
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."
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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"
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)
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.
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.
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)
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)