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  • Ruud van Sloun. Photo: Loraine Bodewes
    August 21, 2025

    Ruud van Sloun nominated for Wetenschapstalent 2025

    The ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ nominee researches how he can improve the image quality of ultrasound in such a way that in the future every doctor may be able to…

  • August 15, 2025

    New techniques help doctors of the future to better assess dangerous vascular diseases

    Floor Fasen has developed new approaches to look at the wall of the aorta from the inside.

  • ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ researchers Yizhou Huang (left) and Massimo Mischi. Photos: Angeline Swinkels
    July 24, 2025

    Measuring brain blood flow during brain surgery

    New technique can help prevent strokes during brain surgery.

  • 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 ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ 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 ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ 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 ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ 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 ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ, Máxima MC, and The Gate are setting up a company together with ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ 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

    ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ 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 ÔÚÏߺÚÁÏÃÅ, 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.