Algemeen nieuws

Nieuw onderzoek naar het falen van de rechterhartkamer

Renée Joosen promoveerde deze week in Utrecht op de langetermijngevolgen van aangeboren hartafwijkingen.

Nieuwe bestraling kan erecties bij prostaatkanker beter behouden

Tijdens de behandeling voor prostaatkanker kunnen patiënten last hebben van erectieproblemen als gevolg van de bestraling. Voor deze patiënten zijn er nu goede eerste tussentijdse resultaten van de ERECT-trial. In deze studie laten onderzoekers van het UMC Utrecht zien dat een precisiebestraling met de MR-Linac zenuwen en bloedvaten rondom de prostaat kan sparen. Hierdoor neemt de kans op het behouden van erecties toe.

SEP-conclusie: ons onderzoek is van zeer hoog niveau

Oratie Geert-Jan Geersing: de huisarts als grensspecialist

Nieuwe antistoffen ontwikkeld die ontstekingen afremmen bij auto-immuunziekten

Gezicht geven aan de toekomst

“Chirurg in het lab” 

Mensen met diabetes doen liever mee aan klinisch onderzoek vanuit huis

Kinderspierziekte juveniele dermatomyositis beter voorspellen

Nederlands megacohort: samen bouwen aan gezonder ouder worden

UMC Utrecht onderzoekt met 17 miljoen euro samen met het Nederlands Cohorten Consortium hoe mensen gezond ouder worden en ziekten kunnen voorkomen.

Extra impulse for research and cooperation in preventive health

Five research projects and 28 researchers of the alliance between Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research, Utrecht University and Utrecht University Medical Center (EWUU) will receive 200 thousand euros to drive research and cooperation in the field of preventive health.

Improving HIV treatment monitoring in resource-limited settings

Therapy failure is a threat to the health of people living with HIV, especially in resource-limited settings. Initiatives to reduce treatment failure such as stricter cut-off points for viral suppression, better clinical follow-up and improved HIV therapy monitoring can greatly reduce therapy failure. These are the main take-aways by Lucas Hermans from UMC Utrecht in his PhD thesis that he will defend on November 15, 2022.

Putting health at the heart of climate change

Sustainability and global health. Two major themes UMC Utrecht medical staff and researchers are working on. More important than ever in these times of climate crisis, because the climate crisis also puts our health at risk. During the 27th United Nations Climate Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, we will share our knowledge with the public. UMC Utrecht representative Lekha Rathod: "We need to put health at the heart of climate change."

Education for refugee students at UMC Utrecht

Ezekwu Precious Kemakanma from Nigeria traveled to Ukraine in 2015 to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor. Just before his graduation, war broke out and he fled to the Netherlands. Thanks to a new educational pilot program for refugee students, Ezekwu and four other medical students were able to obtain the necessary credits at UMC Utrecht to receive their doctor's degree in Ukraine. "This was a unique opportunity," he said.

Twenty years as a breeding ground for talent

Celebrating this twenty year anniversary along with the biomedical master’s programs is UMC Utrecht associate professor Kristin Denzer. As a lecturer and master’s coordinator since inception, she has seen many students grow to become a Master of Science and then leave the nest to embark on a career as a researcher, policymaker or science communications officers at universities and biotech companies in the Netherlands and far beyond. “These programs are a breeding ground of talent for our scientific research.”

Council of Ministers awards Growth Fund applications

UMC Utrecht participates in various National Growth Funds

Adrienne Cullen Lecture: communication in the event of errors

Adequate care for the patient's family and an investigation report that is also understandable to relatives.

Corona self-tests more accurate when sample is taken from nose and throat

Research from the Netherlands has revealed that in individuals with Covid-19 like symptoms, the sensitivities of three commercially available corona self-tests performed with nasal self-sampling decreased during the emergence of the Omicron variant.

Aspirin may improve 3-month survival for patients critically ill with COVID-19

Antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin have little effect on the need for life support in COVID-19, but they may improve survival in the following months according to the latest results from the international REMAP-CAP study.

€1.2 million for groundbreaking genetics research

Research group of the UMC Utrecht wins an Ammodo Science Award for scientific research 2022.