As of March 2021, the monthly MDR Colloquia are being opened to all researchers of MDR-affiliated institutes. These include researchers from ICMS, RMU and MERLN. Check out this’ months colloquium information here. All researchers will be invited by email to join the monthly lectures. If you don’t receive these invitations and you are an affiliated […]

Today, February 23rd, the stories of patient Desirée and her research physician Maaike van Gelder and Professor Marianne Verhaar will be put online. With these stories you can follow a real-life example of impact that kidney disease has on the daily live of a patient, and what we can do within regenerative medicine for the […]

On 1 April 2021, NWO and ZonMw will become members of Europe PMC (PubMed Central), an open science platform that maintains a worldwide collection of scientific articles and other research output. This membership allows NWO and ZonMw funded researchers in the life sciences and medical sciences to globally share their publications via one central location. […]

Prof. Pamela Habibovic explains (in Dutch) how smart granules “slimme korreltjes” can help us curing large bone defects. I collaboration with eye-openers, she made a video showing what her research is all about.

As of today, February 1st, the next MDR Young Talent Incentives Program is open. You can find all the information via this link: MDR Young Talent Incentives Program 2021.

Prof. Carlijn Bouten en Dr. Anthal Smits were interviewed for the news website ‘De Ingenieur’. The article explains the work of Bouten en Smits at the Eindhoven University of Technology and shows how far they are with creating biodegradable implants for both hearth valves and bloodvessels. Read the full article here.

Prof. Martijn van Griensven (MERLN) together with the MUMC+ Traumatology department successfully implanted a 3D printed scaffold to prepare a major bone defect. The bioengineered implant was able to fill up a large gap in the tibia of the patient, who suffered from a severe motor injury. During the surgery stem cells received from the […]

Recently, a great collaborative effort of MDR researchers published a review article ‘Towards understanding the messengers of extracellular space: Computational models of outside-in integrin reaction networks’. The combined effort of MERLN researchers Zeynep Karagöz, Aurélie Carlier and Martijn van Griensven and TU/e researchers Laura Rijns and Patricia Dankers resulted in this beautiful article. Read it […]

In 2021 the TU/e will celebrate a momentous milestone: TU/e’s 65th birthday. During this lustrum year with the theme ‘Heroes Like You’ many festive activities will be organized (online or face to face). Check out the video launching the lustrum here.  

Very interesting and exciting article was published by Dr. Anthal Smits, together with Prof. Frank Baaijens and Prof. Carlijn Bouten and coworkes. The article ‘Transcetheter-Delivered Expandable Bioresorbable Polymeric Graft with Stenting Capacity Induces Vascular Regeneration’ was published in JACC: Basic to Tanslational Science. Summary As the next step in the translation of vascular tissue engineering, this […]