• Maxine presents at LWNO

    Maxine presents at LWNO

    At the annual meeting of the Landelijke Werkgroep Neuro-Oncologie, Maxine presented her work on four reproducible cognitive domains!

  • Brain Bite on Eduarda’s tutorial paper

    OHBM Brain Bites published a brief teaser on the relevance of network neuroscience, including Eduarda’s paper and accompanying tutorial on how to use and implement graph theory and topological data analysis on neurodata. Read about it here!

  • Vera is back from Copenhagen!

    Vera is back from Copenhagen!

    She spent 3.5 months with the research group of Karin Piil, Senior Researcher at Copenhagen University Hospital Associate Professor at Aarhus University, where she investigated symptom science among brain tumor patients. Read all about it here!

  • Interview with Eduarda on OHBM blog

    After winning the Brain Structure and Function best paper award in Montreal last year at OHBM, Eduarda shared the process and results of her work in an interview on the OHBM blog. Read it here!

  • Lucas Baudouin receives Amsterdam University Fund talent startstipendium!

    The Startstipendium from the Spinoza Fund of the Amsterdam University Fund has selected eight talented scientists of Amsterdam UMC to bring their professional career a step further, and Lucas is one of them! He will be exploring the link between oligodendrocyte dysfunction, myelin issues and cognitive deficits in brain tumor patients, under supervision of Dorien.…

  • Hanarth foundation funds new project

    Many patients with glioma undergo surgical resection of their tumor. However, this surgery may lead to functional and cognitive decline that hampers quality of life. Predictors of such decline are currently unknown, making it difficult for patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals to manage and prognosticate functional decline. In this new, collaborative project, titled “Predicting functional…

  • Linda becomes chair of the VU Amsterdam UTC

    The University Monitoring Committee (UTC) of VU Amsterdam monitors research quality of all departments and institutes within the university, and advises the executive board on research reviews and developments in research. Excitingly, Linda became the chairperson of this committee as of January 1st!

  • Dorien receives Young Investigator Grant from KWF!

    Dorien receives Young Investigator Grant from KWF!

    Cognitive disorders are a side effect of chemotherapy that can persist long after the treatment is completed and include problems with working memory and concentration. There is no successful treatment strategy for chemotherapy-related cognitive disorders (CRCI) because clinical and preclinical studies are far apart, creating translational problems in the development of treatments. In the brains…

  • Amsterdam Neuroscience annual meeting

    Amsterdam Neuroscience annual meeting

    Many of us attended the Amsterdam Neuroscience annual meeting! Moreover, Lucas (Baudouin) presented a poster on his exciting new results on culturing oligodendrocytes from resected peritumoral tissue in order to better understand cognitive deficits in patients with glioma. Stay tuned for more!

  • Eduarda is a runner-up for trainee OS prize

    Eduarda is a runner-up for trainee OS prize

    At the 2023 Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes organized by The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), Eduarda was recognized “for her constant commitment to open science and the development of tools and tutorials for network neuroscience analysis”! She won a runner-up prize of 1000 CAD in addition to being lauded for her work…