Health and Life

Prof Dr Anna Salvati, Dr Christoffer Åberg and Prof Dr Siewert-Jan Marrink have been granted a National Science Agenda (NWA) funding to further develop life-saving drugs based on nanotechnology with the NanoMedNL consortium.

PFAS accumulates in the environment, and is harmful for humans and animals. Biochemist Clemens Mayer and PhD student Suzanne Jansen are working on enzymes that can break down PFAS.

Nathalie Katsonis has won the Ammodo Science Award for Fundamental Research. She develops adaptive molecular materials and studies the chemical origins of life, which in turn yield insights for vaccines and clearing up oil spills at sea.

Dr. Elisabeth Wilhelm is partner in a consortium receiving a EUR 1.2 million ERDF-subsidy to develop an app to guide diabetes patients to a drug-free life.

RUG Professor of Robotics Raffaella Carloni has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize 2025! She is competing with her research, developing a bionic leg that moves just like a normal leg.

Four start-up companies founded by FSE scientists have been nominated to participate in the fifth edition of the Academic Start-up Competition.

Syuzanna Harutyunyan and Geert van den Bogaart of the Faculty of Science and Engineering have been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant.

Together with international partners Professor Adri Minnaard is awarded 9.2 million US dollars from a programme run by the US National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID).

The Ubbo Emmius Fund (UEF) of the University of Groningen has awarded the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center and the Health Technology Research and Innovation Cluster a total of 26.9 million euros.

Sepsis is the number one cause of death in the intensive care unit. The difficulty with sepsis is that the symptoms vary greatly, which means it is difficult to diagnose in time. Geert van den Bogaart collaborates with the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) on a method for the early detection of sepsis. 

Read how University of Groningen scientists are fighting TB, the deadliest infectious disease of 2023.

Patients who run the risk of developing diabetes are often asked to keep a diary of everything they eat. Elisabeth Wilhelm is working on a digital app that gives these patients direct insight into their eating habits and their lifestyle as a whole

Professor Bert Poolman, together with Prof. Petra Schwille, receives an ERC Synergy grant of five million euros for synthetic cell research.