Looking to build a career in neuroscience? Discover exciting opportunities across the Amsterdam Neuroscience network. From divers PhD opportunities up to Business Developer for IXA Amsterdam Neuroscience. Explore the vacancies on our website (scroll down)! ⬇️ www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
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🧠🔬 Amsterdam Neuroscience is the research institute for neuroscience of Amsterdam UMC, VU Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. Our researchers and clinicians join forces in the field of fundamental, translational and clinical research.
🎓 As a neurologist, Jonathan Coutinho is dedicated to improving the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of stroke. In his inaugural lecture last Friday, he discussed new approaches to making strokes more visible and detectable at an earlier stage. Read more ⬇️ www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
By using a powerful 7-tesla MRI scan to examine the brain in great detail before surgery, neurosurgeons can place electrodes more accurately during DBS. As a result, more patients with Parkinson’s disease benefit from the treatment at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
A study by the Molecular Engrams team in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology (MCN) at VU Amsterdam, published in Science Advances, has revealed distinct protein expression signatures in memory-encoding synapses of the hippocampus. 🔬 www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Researchers identify protein signatures in memory-encoding synapses | Amsterdam UMC
A study by the Molecular Engrams team in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology (MCN) at VU Amsterdam, published in Science Advances, has revealed distinct protein expression signatures...
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Last week, the fifth Brain Imaging Symposium was hosted at Amsterdam UMC. This edition focused on breaking barriers in treatment assessment and prediction in psychiatry and was hosted by program leader Matthan Caan. www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
👏 Looking back on an inspiring day at the Translational Neuroscience (TN2) Symposium on Causality in Neuroscience! A big thank you to all speakers, participants, and organizers for making this such an engaging event. Read the recap here: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Last Thursday, the Systems & Network Neuroscience research group at Amsterdam Neuroscience had the pleasure of welcoming Kyle Wedgwood from the University of Exeter to present to both the SNN community and the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 🙌
⚽ Football players who head the ball during a match show ⬆️ levels of blood biomarkers associated with neural damage. The levels return to normal within 24 to 48 hours. Read the study by Marloes Hoppen, Marsh Königs & Jort Vijverberg at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social. www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Amateur soccer players show acute elevations in blood biomarkers of neural damage after heading the ball | Amsterdam UMC
Football players who head the ball during an amateur soccer match show elevated levels of blood biomarkers associated with neural damage immediately after the game, potentially indicating acute brain ...
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🧠 The worldwide OCEANIC-STROKE study has shown in a phase 3 clinical trial that a new blood-thinning medication, asundexian, reduces the risk of a new stroke by approximately 25%. The results were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Phase 3 trial shows a reduction in recurrent ischemic stroke | Amsterdam UMC
Researchers at Amsterdam UMC, in collaboration with colleagues worldwide, have shown in a phase 3 clinical trial that a new blood-thinning medication, asundexian, reduces the risk of a new stroke by a...
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🔬 Six projects have received a ZonMw grant within the 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴 program, highlighting the strength of collaboration between @vuamsterdam.bsky.social and @amsterdamumc.bsky.social in Alzheimer’s drug discovery. Read more about the projects: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
ZonMw awards highlight the strength of the collaboration between VU and Amsterdam UMC in Alzheimer’s drug discovery | Amsterdam UMC
In total, six projects have received a ZonMw award within the Promising Innovative Therapies program. This program supports the development of new treatments targeting the underlying mechanisms of dem...
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Researchers at @alzheimerams.bsky.social of @amsterdamumc.bsky.social published a study on a novel cerebrospinal fluid biomarker. Madison Honey, Charlotte Teunissen et al. show that AcTau174 concentrations are higher across multiple neurodegenerative diseases. www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
New biomarker helps differentiate underlying pathologies of frontotemporal lobar degeneration | Amsterdam UMC
Researchers at the Alzheimer Center Amsterdam (Amsterdam UMC) have published a study on a novel cerebrospinal fluid biomarker, AcTau174, in Nature Medicine. In this study, neuroscientists Madison Hone...
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🧬Brains are not only shaped by our experience but also by our genes. A study led by Amsterdam Neuroscience researchers Bernardo Maciel & Martijn van den Heuvel, from CNCR at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, found that at least 33% of our brain connections are heritable. www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
How does your DNA make your brain unique? | Amsterdam UMC
Brains are not only shaped by our experience, but also by our genes. A new study led by neuroscientists Bernardo Maciel and Martijn van den Heuvel, from the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Rese...
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It appears to be a record number of job opportunities within the Amsterdam Neuroscience network. Are you looking for a research position in neuroscience? This is your time to explore the vacancies. 🚀 Scroll down to the homepage to find the latest vacancies ⬇️ www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
👏 ZonMw Grant for Dagmar Verbaan, Myron Best, Martijn Schut, Charlotte Teunissen @amsterdamumc.bsky.social & Nicole Juffermans @erasmusmc.bsky.social for their LIQUID-DCI project to study blood-based biomarkers to predict DCI in patients with brain hemorrhage. ➡️ www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Amsterdam Neuroscience proudly congratulates 11 newly appointed Principal Investigators 🎉Meet Truus Abbink, Matthan Caan, Vanessa Donega, Willem de Haan, Leonie Menke, Rogier Min, Karel Scheepstra, Vincenzo Sorrentino, Niek van Til, Jort Vijverberg & Nicole Wolf: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
The @hersenstichting.bsky.social funds 2 projects at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social on sensory overload! Brigit de Jong & Hilgo Bruining formed national consortia. Together, they will study what sensory overload is, how it can be measured and how care can be improved. www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Researchers from the CNCR at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social and @amsterdamumc.bsky.social studied neuronal resilience in relation to tau pathology. It describes a previously unknown intrinsic resilience mechanism that protects neurons against tau aggregation. www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Neuronal resilience to tau aggregation by granulovacuolar degeneration vesicles | Amsterdam UMC
Researchers from the Molecular Neurodegeneration and Functional Genomics laboratory of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC have published a study on neuronal resilience in relation to tau pathology in the journal Science Advances. Their work describes a previously unknown intrinsic resilience mechanism that protects neurons against tau aggregation.
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New job in neuroscience? Explore vacancies within the Amsterdam Neuroscience network! Across departments and research groups, openings range from PhD and postdoc positions to clinical research roles & internships. See the vacancies on our website (scroll down)!⬇️ www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
On Febr. 17, the 4th Brain Imaging event took place, this time focusing on PET imaging research. Program spanned preclinical to clinical research with a special focus on neurodegenerative diseases with Danielle Vugts, Lyduine Collij, & Elsmarieke van de Giessen: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Pieter van Bokhoven, CSO at Amsterdam Neuroscience & IXA Neuroscience, about the BIO Neuroscience last week: “Having all these experts in CNS drug discovery visit us in Amsterdam every February is an absolute honour and guarantees the most enjoyable week of the year.” @broadreach-global.bsky.social
🎉 Vici grant for Prof. dr. Matthijs Brouwer! He receives his Vici for the SPEED project: Simple and Prompt Encephalitis and mEningitis Diagnostics. His goal is to improve the diagnostics of brain infections ➡️ faster is better. @amsterdamumc.bsky.social @uva.nl www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
NetSci NL joined researchers from the Systems & Network Neuroscience program of Amsterdam Neuroscience, the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation, and the BeyondTheEdge Network to explore dynamics, network science, and its translation to neuroscience: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
A team of researchers from @amsterdamumc.bsky.social , VU LaserLab, @nin-knaw.bsky.social, and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social has gained new insights into the dynamics of myelin swellings in the brain, showing that these are dynamic and can even recover. Read more: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
On January 16, our neuroscience community came together at RAI Amsterdam for the 10th edition of the Amsterdam Neuroscience Annual Meeting. 👉 Read the full recap here and get an impression of our yearly get-together: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
👏Vanessa Donega and Elga de Vries of @amsterdamumc.bsky.social have been awarded a grant from the Stichting ParkinsonFonds. The funding supports the development of a brain organoid model containing iPSC-derived microglia that mimics aging in Parkinson’s disease: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Development of brain organoid model to unravel the role of aging in parkinson’s disease | Amsterdam UMC
Vanessa Donega, Assistant Professor at the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience at Amsterdam UMC, and Elga de Vries, Professor at the Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology at Amsterdam UMC, have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Parkinson Foundation (ParkinsonFonds). The funding supports the development of a brain organoid model containing iPSC-derived microglia that mimics aging and pathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease.
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👩🏫 Today at 15:45, Wilma Van de Berg will deliver her inaugural lecture, bringing together multiple perspectives on disease progression as the newly appointed 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Read more: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Wilma Van de Berg looks at Parkinson’s disease through different lenses | Amsterdam UMC
With her expertise in neuropathology, biobanking, and high-end microscopy analysis of human brain tissue, Wilma Van de Berg aims to improve early diagnosis and develop disease-modifying therapies for Parkinson’s disease. In her inaugural lecture on December 18, 2025, Professor Wilma Van de Berg will bring together different perspectives on disease progression as the newly appointed Professor Cellular Neurodegeneration, Parkinson’s disease at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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Natalia Goriounova (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for her HumanCircuits project. She will test her prediction that cortical computation in the human brain depends on a highly interconnected network of neurons. ➡️ Read more: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Natalia Goriounova awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to study the function of human neurons and their circuits | Amsterdam UMC
Associate Professor of Integrative Neurophysiology Natalia Goriounova (VU Amsterdam, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research) has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator grant for her HumanCircuits project. Over the next five years she will study neurons in living tissue from the human brain.
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Christiaan Vinkers (@amsterdamumc.bsky.social) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for his RHYTHM project. He will study how daily cortisol rhythms explain resilience and vulnerability to depression or anxiety. ➡️ Read more: www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Christiaan Vinkers awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for research on cortisol rhythms and stress resilience | Amsterdam UMC
Psychiatrist and Professor of Stress and Resilience Christiaan Vinkers (Amsterdam UMC, GGZ inGeest) has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator grant for his project RHYTHM. Over the next five years he will investigate how the daily rhythm of the stress hormone cortisol helps explain why some people remain mentally healthy under pressure, while others develop depression or anxiety. And how this knowledge can be used to improve treatment.
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On 15 Dec, in the afternoon, a new TN2 symposium will be held at Amsterdam UMC. Will you join us? 🎤 Three great speakers will take you along the topic of decoding neurodegeneration through large-scale data integration: from genetic risk to cellular mechanisms. www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...
Vacancy alert! @vuamsterdam.bsky.social , @uva.nl, and @amsterdamumc.bsky.social are seeking talent for research positions in neuroscience. Explore all vacancies within the Amsterdam Neuroscience Network and apply now (scroll down to the bottom of our homepage ⬇️) www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...