Vidi grant for Shabaz Mohammed Shabaz Mohammed has been awarded a Vidi grant for his proposal entitled: Decoding Cellular Communication by the Dutch Organisation for scientific Research (NWO). Internal communication is key for cells to perform their function. Stem cells can become any cell type if the...
Reading chromatin modifications Michiel Vermeulen (Utrecht University) and his Dutch and German colleagues have applied quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics and ChIP-sequencing technology to discover and functionally characterise proteins that bind to methylated histone tails. The results have been published in Cell on 17 September 2010. In a...
Albert Heck co-director of INSTRUCT Associate Centre for Mass Spectrometry Albert Heck (Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, University Utrecht) and Carol Robinson (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford) will co-direct the INSTRUCT Associate Centre for Mass Spectrometry. INSTRUCT is part of the European Strategy...
Péter Horvatovitch (University of Groningen, NBIC) and Bas van Breukelen (University of Utrecht, NBIC-NPC) won the “Enlighten your Research” -award for their proposal “High Speed light path network for the Netherlands Bioinformatics for Proteomics Platform”. The prize giving ceremony by Minister Plasterk was part of...
Terugkeer van hoofd-halskanker bij patiënten te voorspellen Aanwezigheid eiwit voorspelt risico op terugkeer tumor Bij ongeveer 20% van de patiënten komt na een operatie aan een hoofd-hals tumor, de tumor weer terug. Tot voor kort was het onmogelijk om te voorspellen bij welke patiënten dit...
Technology Foundation STW has awarded NPC researchers Albert Heck and Esther van Duijn (UU) a STW Grant of 992k euro. In collaboration with MS Vision and Merus, Heck and van Duijn will use their grant to characterize antibodies for therapeutic applications. [gallery type="rectangular" ids="551,458,429,221,207,206,204"]...