CNCR/FGA is seeking applications Assistant Professor in RNA Biology and application in neuroscience who will develop an independent research program to explore new directions in translation regulation, RNA stability or –transport.

The EM core facility at the VU campus has applied their long-standing experience of monolayer ultrastructural analysis to a different field, the analysis of mircoogranisms such as bacteria.

De “outreach” activiteiten van het team Molecular Neurodegeneration van Wiep Scheper zijn beloond door de KNAW met de toekenning van een award van het pilotfonds ‘Wetenschapscommunicatie door wetenschappers: Gewaardeerd’!

With this take-off grant Claudia Persoon will investigate the commercial potential of the human neuron cell models and imaging techniques developed at Amsterdam UMC and VU University in search of new treatments for brain disorders.

a young patient who carries a SYT1 mutation is the first to receive a mechanism-based treatment with the prescription of bumetanide, aiming to reverse excitation/inhibition disturbance