Health and Society

Together with international partners Professor Adri Minnaard is awarded 9.2 million US dollars from a programme run by the US National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID).

The Ubbo Emmius Fund (UEF) of the University of Groningen has awarded the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center and the Health Technology Research and Innovation Cluster a total of 26.9 million euros.

Sepsis is the number one cause of death in the intensive care unit. The difficulty with sepsis is that the symptoms vary greatly, which means it is difficult to diagnose in time. Geert van den Bogaart collaborates with the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) on a method for the early detection of sepsis. 

Read how University of Groningen scientists are fighting TB, the deadliest infectious disease of 2023.

Patients who run the risk of developing diabetes are often asked to keep a diary of everything they eat. Elisabeth Wilhelm is working on a digital app that gives these patients direct insight into their eating habits and their lifestyle as a whole

Professor Bert Poolman, together with Prof. Petra Schwille, receives an ERC Synergy grant of five million euros for synthetic cell research.

How can lifeless molecules come together to form a living cell? Bert Poolman, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Groningen, has been working on this problem for over twenty years.

Marthe Walvoort, associate professor of Chemical Glycobiology, sees the transfer of knowledge about sugars as her mission.

Prof. Marc van der Maarel and Prof. Geert van den Bogaart will receive a Biotech Booster grant of EUR 200,000 from the National Growth Fund Program.

Stef van Grieken is the new UG Alumnus of the Year. In 2021, he founded a company, Cradle, that deploys Artificial Intelligence (AI) to design better proteins. In less than two years, the first multinationals were already knocking on his door. ‘In 20 years’ time, I want to be able to say: I used my knowledge and expertise to do the right thing.’

Scientists from the University of Groningen have shown in laboratory experiments that an increase in temperature from 37 to 40 degrees Celsius increased the resistance rate for two antimicrobials, while for a third antimicrobial, the higher temperature reduced the resistance rate. If these results can be replicated in human patients, fever control could be a new way to mitigate the emergence of antibiotic resistance.

RUG researchers partner in NWO Summit grant to research molecular basis of life.

Raffaella Carloni and Jonas Göbel received the Ben Feringa Impact Awards 2024 for the categories of researchers and students on Tuesday 21 May.

At the UG Ceremony of Merits on May 21, Mink Sieders was awarded the GUF 100 Prize, making him the best student of the Faculty of Science and Engineering 2023-2024.

University of Groningen chemists created an enzyme with boronic acid at its reactive centre. This approach can produce more selective reactions with boron, and allows the use of directed evolution to improve its catalytic power. The new-to-nature enzyme was presented in the journal Nature on 8 May.

Prof. Henderik Willem Frijlink was nominated by the UG to receive a royal decoration on Friday 26 April

Dr. Charissa Roossien (ENTEG) has successfully secured a Just Transition Fund (JTF) subsidy of 1.8 million euros to develop a Health Tracker for reliable respiratory and metabolic analysis.