ASL prize for Aurélie Carlier
On May 18th, Aurelie Carlier received the ASL price for Science and Technology for her thesis "Multiscale modelling of angiogenesis during normal and impaired bone regeneration".
First poster prize for Pascal Vroemen
On the 10th of May, during the Wetenschapsdag 2017 ("Science day"), organized by MUMC+, Pascal Vroemen was awarded the first prize for his poster presentation on an in vitro glaucoma model for retinal ganglion cells.
Nick Beijer awarded the annual NVCB oral presentation price
Zeist, The Netherlands. At the annual meeting of the NVCB (Dutch Society for Calcium and Bone Metabolism), cBITE was represented by Nick Beijer who was presenting the group’s work on osteogenic surface topographies. The presentation entitled: “Improving Orthopedic Implant Surfaces; from In Silico Topography Design to Enhanced Bone Bonding In Vivo”, was very well appreciated by the audience. Nick guided the NVCB members through the complete story of TopoChip design and functionalities, high-throughput screening process and validation, towards promising in vivo results.
VENI grant for Aurélie Carlier
We are proud to announce MERLN's first successful VENI award to a very promising young investigator. In her proposal "Shaping the building blocks of life," Dr. Carlier will use computational techniques to investigate how cell shape can steer cell functioning. She hopes that this fundamental understanding of our basic building blocks, can be used to improve orthopaedic implants. The VENI is the first grant in the prestigious line of talent identification grants given by the Dutch Funding agency, NWO.
Aurélie Carlier selected to join the Tissue Engineering Young Investigator Council 2016
Aurélie Carlier, Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the cBITE group of Jan de Boer at Merln has been selected out of a group of 450 applicants to join the 2016 Tissue Engineering Young Investigator Council (TEN YIC). As a Young Investigator she will have the opportunity to build her skills as an esteemed reviewer of journal manuscripts, partake in editorial board activities and meetings, develop content to be featured in the journal, work alongside the other YIC members and TERMIS SYIS members and build her reputation and network in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Her one year term starts on February 1, 2016.