Saskia van Wees investigates the intricacies of plant resistance and the role plant hormones play in these processes. Today, she delivers her inaugural lecture.

The faculty of Geosciences is working on a strategy to collaborate with the Global South in a meaningful, inclusive and mutually beneficial way.

This thesis explores ways to predict how well patients with advanced melanoma will respond to a type of cancer treatment called checkpoint inhibitors. The goal is to find reliable predictors using ...

Bijels - pronounced "bye-gels" - are relatively new gels with unique properties. In her PhD research, Mariska de Ruiter has taken significant steps toward the industrial application of these promising ...

Recent research shows that the immune system, which typically protects us from infections, and mitochondria, the energy producers in our cells, play a role in chronic pain. However, we do not fully ...

To make the plastic industry circular, we need innovative recycling technologies that yield a higher quality product. An interdisciplinary consortium of academic and industrial partners recently ...

The research focus area Sport & Society concludes with a special, digital magazine. But this is certainly not the end of Sport & Society as a theme in research and education.

Traditionally, cancer treatment has been based on the principle that patients with the same type of cancer are uniformly treated with the same therapy. However, the effectiveness of this approach, ...

The focus area Applied Data Science has funding to financially support small research projects within the Special Interest Groups. The aim is to foster the application of data science techniques in ...

Migration and Societal Change provides a platform for researchers at Utrecht University working on migration and related societal transformations. It stimulates cross-fertilization between researchers ...

Imaging, which is the process of creating visual representations of information, plays an important role in many fields of science, including biology, biomedical sciences, geosciences, and medicine.

Saskia van Wees onderzoekt hoe het afweersysteem van planten werkt en welke rol plantenhormonen daarbij spelen. Vandaag houdt ze haar oratie.