Twenty-two promising, young Utrecht researchers have been awarded a Veni grant of up to 280,000 euros by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
Jan van der Valk will be leaving as head of the 3Rs-Centre at the end of 2021. In the last few years he more or less personified the centre all by himself, with a few support staff who came and went.
Researchers from Utrecht University and WUR have investigated the possible cause of death of the 190 dead porpoises that washed ashore on the Dutch coast last Summer.
New research shows that people who live in rural areas with many cattle farms still have a greater chance of contracting pneumonia than people who live in rural areas with fewer or no cattle farms nearby.
The Executive Board has appointed Lidwien Smit as professor of One Health and Environmental Epidemiology at Utrecht University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine as of 1 November 2021.
The reproduction of harbour porpoises runts into problems when there is not enough high quality food like high caloric fish available, or when the animals are in poor condition.
Eleven research pairs from Utrecht University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) have been awarded grants to carry out joint research into the functioning of coastal seas and oceans.