ERC Starting Grant

Prestigious European grant for two young Erasmus MC scientists

Molecular radiation biologist Dr. Julie Nonnekens and developmental psychologist Dr. Charlotte Cecil have both been granted a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). With the prestigious grant the young scientists of Erasmus MC can expand their research projects.

Organoids

Coronavirus infects and damages kidneys

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infects kidney cells and contributes to tissue scarring in the kidneys. This has been shown by researchers from the Erasmus MC, RWTH Uniklinik Aachen in Germany and Radboudumc.

Lockdown

Fewer strokes diagnosed during first COVID wave

Around 30 percent fewer strokes were diagnosed during the first corona wave than during similar periods in previous years. The number of heart attacks diagnosed remained the same. This is evident from research conducted by the Erasmus MC in the Rotterdam Rijnmond region.

Rare diseases

Erasmus MC joins five European Reference Networks

Erasmus MC will join five European Reference Networks (ERNs) for complex and rare diseases as of January 1, 2022. This will make Erasmus MC a participant in 23 of the 24 existing networks.

UFO Biosciences

Advanced microscope finds cancer cells that matter

Scientist Miao-Ping Chien and her team have designed and built a completely new type of microscope. In doing so, Chien hopes to boost research into rare cancer cells. ‘We can image tens of thousands of individual cells at once.’

Discoverers of very rare form of epilepsy now on track to treatment

Only 40 patients worldwide are known to have Barakat-Perenthaler syndrome, a severe untreatable form of epilepsy. Four years after discovering the disease, its Rotterdam namesakes are now on the trail of a treatment.

Barakat-Perenthaler syndrome