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  • Our bioluminescent molecular diagnostics platform enables rapid on-site detection of pathogens with a simple and affordable camera-based reader device and minimal hands-on time. Photo: Spotlight Dx
    July 9, 2025

    Detecting infectious diseases outside the lab: this startup is doing it

    Researchers from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and others founded startup Spotlight Dx to detect infectious diseases faster and more accurately, anywhere in the…

  • Image of doctors in the OR at work with the Da Vinci XI operating robot. Doctors depend entirely on the information on the screen for orientation. Photo: Intuitive.com
    July 1, 2025

    'Google Maps' for surgeons

    Researchers from UMC Utrecht and ¹û¶³´«Ã½ are working on an 'augmented reality' layer for surgeons who perform complex esophagectomy with a…

  • The winners of the Science Awards 2025. From left to right: Fons van der Sommen, Sandra Loerakker, Tom Bertens, Iris Huijben, Juliette van Haren, and Heleen de Coninck. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    June 25, 2025

    Innovation thrives on collaboration; this is the theme of Research Day 2025

    Collaboration and knowledge sharing featured front and center during the fourth ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Research Day on June 24, 2025. More than once, the…

  • Chairman Koen Janssen in conversation with Cindy de Koning. Click on the photo to watch the video. Photo: Still from Boardwalk
    June 23, 2025
    PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD KOEN JANSSEN IN EPISODE FIVE OF BOARDWALK

    'I see many opportunities to improve and change'

    [VIDEO] In the fifth episode of our video series Boardwalk, the new President of the Executive Board, Koen Janssen, talks about his first…

  • AquaWomb's Perinatal Life Support system focuses on a safe transition from the mother to the incubator filled with amniotic fluid for the baby. Here, with the help of the specially developed realistic and advanced baby doll (in technical terms, this is called a manikin), it is shown how that could go. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    June 11, 2025

    Startup AquaWomb gives premature babies a better start

    Researchers from ¹û¶³´«Ã½, Máxima MC, and The Gate are setting up a company together with ¹û¶³´«Ã½ for medical equipment for premature children.

  • Tom Bakkes (left) and Anouk van Diepen. Photo: Catharina Ziekenhuis.
    May 1, 2025

    From data to decisiveness at the bedside: technology for a pleasant and fast recovery

    ¹û¶³´«Ã½ PhD students work together on AI solutions in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). They obtained their doctorate from the Department of…

  • Vera van Hal makes an ultrasound with two transducers. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    April 3, 2025

    Two see more than one – improved imaging with multiple ultrasound transducers

    Research by ¹û¶³´«Ã½, the Catharina Ziekenhuis, and Philips shows that the image quality of ultrasound improves with two ultrasound transducers.…

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    March 28, 2025

    Depression under the scan

    Greater understanding of how depression progresses thanks to brain scan.

  • Richard Lopata in the PULS/e lab. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    March 20, 2025

    Richard Lopata: scientist with the heart of a drummer

    By combining ultrasound, photoacoustics, and imaging, Richard Lopata brings medical technologies from concept to clinical practice.

  • Marloes Pennings (left) and Emira Visser. Photo's: Vincent van den Hoogen.
    March 20, 2025
    Publication in Nature Communications

    New 'molecular glue' helps against damage caused by type 2 diabetes

    ¹û¶³´«Ã½ scientists collaborate on a method to protect insulin-producing cells.

  • Willem Linders. Photo: Jarno Verhoef/Catharina Ziekenhuis
    March 19, 2025

    Incurably ill patient helps enable earlier detection of pancreatic cancer

    ¹û¶³´«Ã½ PhD student Lotte Ewals involves patients in her research on earlier detection of pancreatic cancer. A very motivated patient…

  • Peter de With en Fons van der Sommen. Photos: Vincent van den Hoogen
    March 12, 2025

    New consortium for immunotherapy research

    FORESIGHT consortium stimulates molecular imaging in the development of new immunotherapy drugs and the matching of existing drugs with…