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Highlighted project: Safer keyhole surgery thanks to new mechanism

12/7/2021

One of the methods used for keyhole surgery in the abdomen is the so-called "Veress needle". In some cases, the needle is pricked too deeply and damages underlying tissue. A consortium has developed a prototype mechanism to prevent these needles from slipping.

Medical Delta PhD student on primary school children's theatre tour

12/6/2021

With the 'Hoe?Zo!Show', a group of academics brings science to a young audience. In a theatre tour for group 6 pupils, they explain in clear language what science is and what insights scientific research provides. Medical Delta PhD student Martijn Nagtegaal is one of them.

Green light for second phase Vital Delta

12/2/2021

Taskforce for Applied Research SIA has extended the SPRONG grant for the scientific program 'Vital Delta: Medical Delta's Journey towards Vitality and Health' by four years. The SPRONG groups Vitality and Health have been working since February 2018.

Portrait and video Natasja de Groot: "I now feel a responsibility to connect people”

12/2/2021

In a series of portraits, we weekly highlight one of the new Medical Delta professors and their research. This week, we highlight prof. dr. Natasja de Groot. "Medical Delta shows what is possible and feasible and that is contagious."

NRC Handelsblad publishes news article on research into living heart tissue

12/1/2021

Today NRC Handelsblad published a news article about the research with living heart tissue that takes place at Erasmus MC under the leadership of Dr. Yanick Taverne, one of the principal investigators within the scientific programme Medical Delta Cardiac Arrythmia Lab.

Student teams iGEM Leiden and Delft win prizes in international biology competition

11/26/2021

Both iGEM Team Leiden and iGEM Team Delft won prizes in the annual biology competition iGEM. Team Leiden presented a solution for making genetic modification safer. Team Delft developed a portable test kit that makes invisible hunger visible.

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