Algemeen nieuws

Woonomgeving speelt rol in risico op hart- en vaatziekten

Onderzoek van UMC Utrecht en Amsterdam UMC toont aan dat mensen die wonen in buurten met veel ongezonde eetgelegenheden en weinig mogelijkheden om te bewegen bijna vijf procent meer risico lopen op hart- en vaatziekten.

AI voorspelt succes van anti-kankertherapie

Jubileum Sylvia Tóth Centrum in het WKZ

Het Sylvia Tóth Centrum bestaat 25 jaar! Ondernemer Sylvia Tóth maakte het centrum mogelijk in 2000. Zij had de ambitie om het welzijn te verbeteren van kinderen met een complexe neurologische onbegrepen aandoening. Het was een nieuwe kijk op zorg van een betrokken buitenstaander en dat blijkt nog altijd effectief te zijn. 

Bewegen gaf Ineke haar leven terug na uitgezaaide borstkanker

Het leven van een ander langer en mooier gemaakt

Samenwerking voor betere zorg bij overdosis

Artsen op de spoedeisende hulp van UMC Utrecht en Diakonessenhuis samen voor betere zorg bewusteloze patiënten na recreatief gebruik medicijnen of drugs.

Joop’s oorepithese: zelfvertrouwen door techniek

Verpleegkundig onderzoek: een kritische blik op het vak 

Liesbeth Segers is verpleegkundige van het Jaar 2025’ in de categorie onderzoek 

Communiceren ondanks locked-in syndroom

Julia Berezutskaya van het UMC Utrecht wint met ‘Alphabet’ de Ureka Mega Challenge 2025.

Traumazorg is teamwork: samen sterk in de regio Midden-Nederland

Goede traumazorg lever je nooit alleen. Daar is een heel ziekenhuis voor nodig – én samenwerking met partners in de regio.

'I learned to look at patients specifically'

Hans Merks, professor of paediatric soft tissue and bone sarcomas at UMC Utrecht, delivered his oration on Friday 2 February, titled 'Look and marvel'. A speech about sarcoma research, deeper layers that you only start to see when you realise it and the search for effective treatments for children.

Precision medicine to treat effectively

Marcel Kool, professor of Childhood brain tumors at UMC Utrecht, delivered his oration on Wednesday 24 January, titled "Pediatric Brain Tumors - WHO cares!?" on the different types of brain tumors in children, developments in precision medicine and the search for effective treatments.

New, innovative breast cancer research

How can AI help pathologists find metastases in breast cancer faster (and in an less expensive way)? And why are breast cancer tumors more likely to be more aggressive in pregnant women? Two new innovative studies from UMC Utrecht evolve around these questions. Researchers present the results today at the leading San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Nominate your colleague for the Best Support Award

With the Best Support Award we put colleagues in the spotlight who do an enormous amount of work behind the scenes. Have you had a lot of help from a colleague and would you like to thank them for that? Then nominate your colleague before February 16 for the Best Support Award. The presentation will be during the Diversity & Inclusion Award ceremony at Utrecht University on March 26, 2024.

Newly described mechanism offers opportunities for treatment of cystic fibrosis

People with cystic fibrosis have a compromised defense against pathogens in the lungs, due to the accumulation of thick mucus in their lungs in which pathogens thrive. Apart from the mucus, the fluids lining the airway surfaces are also too acidic and that inhibits additional antimicrobial defense mechanisms against pathogens. Researchers from Newcastle University and University Medical Center Utrecht have described a new cellular mechanism that influences this acidity using miniature airways, and discovered two already approved drugs that could potentially be used to change the acidity in people with CF.

AI speeds up identification brain tumor type

What type of brain tumor does this patient have? AI technology helps to determine this as early as during surgery, within 1.5 hours. This process normally takes a week. The new technology allows neurosurgeons to adjust their surgical strategies on the spot. Today, researchers from UMC Utrecht and researchers, pathologists and neurosurgeons from the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology and Amsterdam UMC have published about this study in Nature.

Festive closure of the DIS project during the Symposium ‘Diversity belongs to Everyone Together’

After a series of successful collaborative years involving more than 30 programs, the University of Utrecht concluded the Diversity in Enrollment and Selection (DIS) project on October 5, 2023. This symposium not only marked the end of the DIS project but also opened a significant chapter in further developments of DIS.

'Paediatric radiologist: we contribute to optimal care'

Well-supported guidelines for paediatric radiological imaging are needed to ensure the best care for children, Professor of Paediatric Radiology Rutger Jan Nievelstein recently stated in his inaugural address. This requires sound scientific research. After all, children have a different range of conditions than adults, such as congenital defects, hereditary and metabolic diseases, and certain types of tumours. The new chair that will strengthen this scientific research falls under the strategic theme Child Health and supports the enhancers image-guided interventions and integral complex care for children.

Appointment of Scientific Directors and Director EWUU Education to strengthen the alliance between Eindhoven, Wageningen and Utrecht

The alliance of TU/e, WUR, UU, and UMC Utrecht (EWUU) has appointed two Scientific Directors and a Director EWUU Education to strengthen the collaboration between the four institutes in Eindhoven, Wageningen and Utrecht.

How do immune cells recognise cancer?

UMC Utrecht unravels how immune cells recognise and battle cancer.