UMCG Research Talk

Earlier this year, Arno Bourgonje graduated cum laude on his doctoral thesis on biomarkers for the chronic intestinal disease IBD. Biomarkers are biological substances that can reflect a certain medical state or condition in the body. Biomarkers can help, for example, in early detection of disease or in predicting the effectiveness of treatment. Arno found an important new biomarker that shows the...

In this podcast we speak with Efi Gkoumassi, head of the Digital Compentence Center and Karina Sulim, data manager and data steward at the UMCG.  The digitization of research data is paving the way for faster and newer forms of data use, reuse, and sharing. In this new landscape, the responsible handling of data through data management is more important than ever.   

Molecular biologist Ody Sibon has been studying a rare disease called Pantothenate-Kinase-Associated-Neurodegeneration (PKAN) for years. By coincidence she discovers a vitamin derivative in a fruitfly model that might also help PKAN patients. To bring her research all the way to the patient she asked help of business developer Hans Hektor from the Innovation Center of the UMCG.  Together they succ...

In this episode we speak with computational researcher and Rosalin Franklin Fellow Inge Holtman. She initiated the Netherlands Neurogenomics Database in collaboration with Inge Huitinga from the Netherlands Brain Bank, a cohort that was founded in 1985 by Dick Swaab. In this cohort brain tissues from all over the Netherlands are collected, together with a lot of clinical data from the donors. This...

In this epsiode we speak with Job van Boven, health economics & real-world drug outcomes expert and Daan Touw, clinical pharmacologist, both member of the Medication Adherence Expertise Center Of the northern Netherlands (MAECON). They explain why it is important to enhance medication adherence and tell about their study in tuberculosis patients where they investigated if digital adherence tec...

There is gender gap in the research landscape. The number of female professors has been rising over the past few years, but female scientists are still underrepresented at higher positions and in leadership roles. Why is that? And how can we reduce this gap? In this episode discuss the gender gap in science with Marian Joëls, prof. of Neuroscience and dean of Medical Sciences at the UMCG who activ...