Materials driven regeneration
As of 1 December 2019, Patricia Dankers, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, will serve as the new chairperson of the Chemistry Round Table. She succeeds Professor Bert Weckhuysen, who gave up the chair to secure his independent position as the chairperson of the Weckhuysen committee of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences. […]
Last Wednesday (6th of November) MDR brought together PhD students and Postdocs involved in the MDR consortium. On this day we had a chance to get to know each other, talk about each other’s research and learn about social media and vloggen! It was a very nice and interesting day with lot’s of positive comments. […]
Together with the TU/e and other European universities Dr. Miguel Dias Castilho and colleagues were recently awarded with a #EU H2020 €8M grant. Within MDR Dr. Castilho works together with Joost Sluijter and Jos Malda on this project. This grant will allow them to make important progress on developing regenerative ventricular assisted devices to support […]
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Researchers at the MERLN Institute for Regenerative Medicine recently launched the Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics (cBiT), a new worldwide research database for biomaterial-based trancriptomics studies. At MERLN, Prof. Jan de Boer leads a team of researchers who want to discover what happens in the cell when it interacts with a biomaterial and which factors influence […]
Carlijn Bouten (TU/e) and coworkers published a perspective in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. The article entitled ‘Can We Grow Valves Inside the Heart? Perspective on Material-based In Situ Heart Valve Tissue Engineering’ discusses recent advances of material-based in situ heart valve tissue engineering and highlights the most critical issues that remain before clinical application can be expected. […]