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.

Pooyan Tamimi Arab is awarded a Vidi grant for research on secularisation in Iran: how do Iranians truly feel about religion, atheism, and the separation of mosque and state?

PhD Defense: Equipping biomedical students for science-society dialogue; Exploring competencies and training strategies ...

The protest on November 25 is organized by the FNV labor union, in collaboration with the AOb education union and partners like WOinActie. The program will include various activities, with the main ...

Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht University. This time: historical budget cuts.

Heart and blood vessel diseases—like heart attacks, heart failure, and strokes—are major health problems worldwide. Experts predict that by 2060, these diseases will become even more common in both ...