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The PHARMIGA consortium has been awarded a multi-million euro investment to build a national research network focused on developing medicines based on IgA antibodies.

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In memoriam: prof. dr. Hans Vliegenthart (April 7, 1936 – February 12, 2026)

Professor Peter Roepstorff, former member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bijvoet Centre, passed away on 3 February 2026 at the age of 83.

NWO Take-off grant awarded to Markus Weingarth

Faculty of Impact grant for Françoise Dekker

A better understanding of protein glycosylation offers insights into disease mechanisms and helps improve therapeutic medicines.

A major new national facility for electron microscopy, called EMPower, has been awarded to a consortium of Dutch universities and medical centers.

M-grants offer researchers the possibility to elaborate creative and risky ideas and to realise scientific innovations.

Over thirty promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1 in 7 Venis went to Utrecht researchers this year.

The H.G.K. Westenbrink Prize 2023–2024 has been awarded to Dr. Max Gemmer for his thesis entitled ‘Visualizing Protein Biogenesis at the ER Membrane’.

Utrecht University researchers Bas van Ravensteijn and Markus Weingarth have each been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant of €150.000 to further enhance antibiotics and nanomedice

Marc Baldus has been appointed as new director of national research institute HFML-FELIX.

A small group of antibodies in your blood stays the same for years, even after vaccines. These stable antibodies create a unique and personal immune 'fingerprint' that barely changes over time. The discovery helps explain how long-term immunity works.

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