CARIM Symposium 2022

The annual CARIM Symposium 2022 will take place on Wednesday 16 November 2022.
 
During our annual Symposium, CARIM researchers will present their work by giving a lecture or presenting a poster. Furthermore, Prof. Marie-José Goumans (UMC Leiden) will give a lecture during the ReGEN/iPSC session.
 
This year's traditional Robert Reneman CARIM Lecture will be given by Prof. Peter Stenvinkel, professor and senior lecturer at Department of Renal Medicine of Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 

The symposium will be held at the Minderbroedersberg, followed by a festive evening at Thiessen.

Click here to register for the event. 

Virchow Prize Arina ten Cate-Hoek

On Thursday 13 October, in honour of World Thrombosis Day, Dr Arina ten Cate-Hoek (Dept. of Internal Medicine) received the Virchow Prize 2022. The prize was awarded by the DGA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für angiologie , Gesellschaft für Gefäßmedizin), the joint professional association for angiologists, phlebologists and vascular surgeons of the 3 German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). She receives the prize for her scientific work in the field of Post Thrombotic Syndrome and in particular for research into the effectiveness of compression therapy and the direct impact of her work on various guidelines.

Since 2015, the Virchow Prize has been awarded annually to a scientist with special merit. The aim of the prize is to raise awareness of thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, their complications and consequences, and the possibilities of early diagnosis. Both the population and the medical world must be made more aware of this problem. The prize is awarded for special publications, health care studies, applications and measures to support the implementation of guidelines. The prize is not open to the public. The award is presented once a year on World Thrombosis Day - always on 13 October.

Prof.dr. J. Terpstra Award 2022 Philippe Vangrieken

Pélerìn award Floor Pinckaers

Floor Pinckaers (Dept. of Neurology) has received this year's Pélerìn award for her research on dual-energy CT after endovascular stroke treatment. The award was presented during the annual Pélerìn Symposium that took place on 5 October 2023. The annual Pélerìn physician assistants symposium is the ideal opportunity for physician assistants, physician researchers and semi-doctors to draw attention to scientific research carried out from Maastricht UMC+.

Opening AMICARE

PhD candidates from Maastricht University winning two awards during the ARTERY 22 conference

19-22 October 2022, PhD candidates from Maastricht University attended conference ARTERY22 in Nancy, France. They went there with a total of 7 colleagues, who all presented work about their current research in cardiovascular disease. They were in a winning mood, two of them got rewarded. Berta Ganizada is a shared PhD candidate from Cardiothoracic surgery and Biochemistry department, where she is working under supervision of Prof. Leon Schurgers, Dr Koen Reesink, Dr Elham Bidar and Prof. Jos Maessen. During ARTERY22, she got the opportunity to give an oral presentation on her current work on 'Histomorphometric analysis of cell and matrix components of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm'. The aim of this project is to identify an early-stage screening markers for patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm. During ARTERY22 congress, she got rewarded with the second place Young Investigator Award.

Cindy van Loo is a PhD candidate in the department of Biomedical Engineering under supervision of Dr Bart Spronck and Prof. Leon Schurgers and Prof. Tammo Delhaas. Here, she investigates the effect of vasoconstriction on vascular stiffness. During the same conference in Nancy, she got rewarded with a Research Exchange Grant for her research proposal in collaboration with the lab of Jason Au at the University of Waterloo in Canada! This enables her to investigate the mechanical properties of aortic and carotid artery tissue of human donors.

Vacancy CARIM Educational Programme Committee

The CARIM Educational Programme Committee (EPC) has a vacancy for a CARIM staff member from January 2023 onwards. We are looking for a new member with experience with supervision of PhD candidates.

The EPC focusses on the quality of the CARIM PhD Programme. The committee consists of 4 CARIM staff members and PhD representatives from I’M CARIM.
The committee meets on a monthly basis.

If you are interested, you can contact one of the present staff members in the committee: Boy Houben, Matthijs Blankesteijn or Eline Kooi before the end of November.

Launch UMployee

On 8 November we are launching our new employee intranet: UMployee! At the moment, you get information through several channels. Starting 8 November, UMployee will be your digital start of the day. You can easily keep up to date with the latest news and find all the information you need in one central place.

As a result, the familiar Communication and Executive Board e-mails will disappear. Many newsletters will also disappear, and UM news will become a student-only mailing. This will streamline our internal communication.



Intranet belongs to us all
UMployee becomes a source of information: here you will find everything you need. We will also share news, updates and useful links in relevant groups. We will add you automatically to the group of your faculty or service centre, but you know best which news is most relevant to you. So, starting 8 November, join other groups and follow what you find interesting: then you won’t miss a thing!

We’ll be in touch!
In addition, you can share information yourself on UMployee in groups: we will tell you more about that later. You will be able to communicate with colleagues and respond to messages on the intranet. This way, we’ll find each other both on campus and online. Do you want colleagues to be able to find you easily and know when you are at work? Then complete your personal profile with practical information, such as tasks, areas of expertise and useful information about (home) working days.

Tuesday 8 November: a day to celebrate
On November 8, we’re celebrating UMployee going live. And we’ll do so in multiple places. Do you want to know where and how? Get in touch with the community manager of your faculty or service centre for more information!

Willem's wisdoms

How to use the FAIR principles in data management? Read this blog!

Call for supervisors Core of Biomedical Science course 

Paramount Papers

Intravital microscopy for real-time monitoring of drug delivery and nanobiological processes

Intravital microscopy (IVM) expands our understanding of cellular and molecular processes, with applications ranging from fundamental biology to (patho)physiology and immunology, as well as from drug delivery to drug processing and drug efficacy testing. In this review, we highlight modalities, methods and model organisms that make up today’s IVM landscape, and we present how IVM - via its high spatiotemporal resolution - enables analysis of metabolites, small molecules, nanoparticles, immune cells, and the (tumor) tissue microenvironment. We furthermore present examples of how IVM facilitates the elucidation of nanomedicine kinetics and targeting mechanisms, as well as of biological processes such as immune cell death, host-pathogen interactions, metabolic states, and disease progression. We conclude by discussing the prospects of IVM clinical translation and examining the integration of machine learning in future IVM practice.

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