AbLab provides state of the art Native MS services and is a service unit within the Heck lab. Due to this unique position AbLab has access to the latest insights, innovations, methodology and instrumentation for providing mass spectrometry services. Native MS is emerging as a powerful technique for...
Researchers of Utrecht University, Intravacc and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment used a new method to identify hitherto unknown peptide antigens. This type of antigen had long been searched for, as they may be the starting points for new vaccines and...
On Saturday March 15th the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published an article on the Science publication Complement Is Activated by IgG Hexamers Assembled at the Cell Surface. Prof. Albert Heck and PhD student Sara Rosati contributed to this Science publication. Check it out! ...
Experts in proteomics from Utrecht University and next-generation DNA sequencing from the Hubrecht Institute/UMC Utrecht collaborated in a study to systematically determine the consequences of genetic variation on the transcriptome and proteome. The researchers applied ultra-deep quantitative proteomics, whole genome sequencing and RNA-seq to liver...
The “Discovery Award in Proteomic Sciences” has been awarded by the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) to Albert J.R. Heck, Professor at the Science Faculty of Utrecht University. Heck is also scientific director of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre and coordinator of the European proteomics infrastructure PRIME-XS...
On June 7th the Dutch magazine C2W published an interview with Albert Heck, scientific director of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre (NPC) and professor Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University. Click here to Read the interview...
A new issue of the magazine of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre (NPC) has arrived! For the online version please go to the NPC website....
Reducing the parasite population with a virus The hitherto fairly unknown Triatoma virus, which kills insects that spread the tropical disease known as Chagas disease, could be used as a pesticide to control the insect plague and thus the spread of the disease. Researchers of the...