News archive

19 October 2011

Forensic research receives impulse from NWO

17 October 2011

Some recent successes of participants LifeSciences@work

17 October 2011

Life Sciences Momentum 2011 - Science for Society

13 October 2011

CSG obtains statue of DNA Marjolein Kriek

12 October 2011

CSG receives prestigious ESF grant

12 October 2011

DNA-labs on the road at Lowlands

11 October 2011

Long live DNA finalist for Academic Year Prize

11 October 2011

Mans ways at Labyrinth radio

11 October 2011

FGCN project leader Manfred Kayser declared 'World Expert'

11 October 2011

NBIC and Ecogenomics Consortium identify Genomic islands

10 October 2011

The Netherlands participate in ELIXIR

10 October 2011

H.G.K. Westenbrink prize 2011 for Charlotte Utrecht

10 October 2011

NBIC launches video channel

7 October 2011

Michiel Kleerebezem new Theme Director at TI Food and Nutrition

7 October 2011

Toxin detective fights for safe food

6 October 2011

The potato genome exposed!

6 October 2011

CBSG scientist wins the Hugo De Vries Prize 2010

6 October 2011

Breakthrough towards more effective vaccines

5 October 2011

CBSG position papers for the future

5 October 2011

Prizes for young talent in bone health research

5 October 2011

Major discovery in preventing cardiovascular diseases

4 October 2011

ZonMW Pearl for CMSB director Gertjan van Ommen

4 October 2011

Dorret Boomsma: Distinguished Investigator Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

4 October 2011

Frits Koning appointed president of the ISSCD

3 October 2011

CGC investigator Jan Hoeijmakers receives the first KNAW Professor Award

3 October 2011

NGI featured in special issue of Hypothese

3 October 2011

Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Opening Expo

18 August 2011

New television programme on DNA at RTL 4

12 July 2011

Mobile DNA-Labs on the Road on Lowlands

5 July 2011

Jan Hoeijmakers of Cancer Genomics Centre received a Grand Prize from The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

21 June 2011

NBIC Hackathon: a marathon to solve problems

21 June 2011

3D protein scanner in school

21 June 2011

Award for essential bioinformatics

21 June 2011

NBIC connects HBO Bioinformatics programmes

21 June 2011

Hoe?Zo! radio - Albert Heck about proteomics research

21 June 2011

Science Meets Justice – Forensic Statistics at the Interface

20 June 2011

ProteoNic joins Kluyver Centre Industrial Platform

20 June 2011

Iain T Boyle Award for NCHA researcher Fernando Rivadeneira

20 June 2011

Low sodium levels associated with spontaneous bone fractures and falling

20 June 2011

European support for studies linking early development and future health

20 June 2011

Life Sciences Momentum 2011 | Science for Society

17 June 2011

CBSG officer Gionata Leone appointed Registered Technology Transfer Professional

17 June 2011

Redefining plant systems biology: from cell to ecosystem

17 June 2011

Summer course: ‘Why and how do we age?’

17 June 2011

Final call for successful Horizon Programme

17 June 2011

Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award 2011

16 June 2011

Four stipends for exchange of top scientists

16 June 2011

CMSB director Gertjan van Ommen is ESHG Award Holder 2011

16 June 2011

CGC research shows how hyperthermia sensitises cancer cells to chemotherapy

15 June 2011

Research on blood vessel growth with simulation techniques

15 June 2011

Research published simultaneously in ten journals

15 June 2011

Frits Koning receives prestigious American award

15 June 2011

VirtualLeaf: how do plant tissues grow?

14 June 2011

Magazine about 'DNA-labs on the road'

7 June 2011

PhenoVation wins Venture Challenge Spring 2011

7 June 2011

NGI is proud to present the 2010 Annual Report

1 June 2011

LifeScience@work event 2011: It was nice to meet you

4 March 2011

Eight million euros for European Network led by Albert Heck

3 March 2011

NBIC establishes Interoperability Taskforce

2 March 2011

Bioinformatics as a didactical tool in high school

2 March 2011

Changes in Kluyver Centre Management Team

1 March 2011

Life Sciences appointed economic top sector

1 March 2011

NGI boosts four new public-private partnerships

28 February 2011

Safe gluten for celiac disease patients

28 February 2011

The Netherlands Genome Project

27 February 2011

Vici and Vidi awarded to CMSB researchers

25 February 2011

CBSG publishes 4 times in Science

25 February 2011

CBSG spin-out NSure nominated for international award

24 February 2011

NTC collaborates with Genedata and Janssen Research & Development

24 February 2011

Vidi awarded to NPC chemist Shabaz Mohammed

23 February 2011

CSG-research causes adaptation general practitioner guidelines

22 February 2011

Nearly fifty pre-proposals for Forensic Science Programme

21 December 2010

Awareness in the virtual kitchen

20 December 2010

NWO commences its Forensic Science research programme

17 December 2010

Maddening Genes

16 December 2010

Improved identification of male offender

16 December 2010

Perspective in Science on sex and fungal invasion

15 December 2010

New technology visualizes metabolism enzyme in living tissue

15 December 2010

CBSG researchers receive prestigious NWO grants

14 December 2010

Bioinformatics Research Support Team

13 December 2010

CBSG spin-out NSure wins Food Valley Award 2010

13 December 2010

Getting old in spite of your DNA risk factors

13 December 2010

First Labyrinth Audience Award for CMSB Team ‘Kies de aanval!’

10 December 2010

Prizes for young talents

9 December 2010

NightBalance wins the NGI Venture Challenge Fall 2010

9 December 2010

Predicting Length and Disease

8 December 2010

First Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award was presented for a bullet proof skin, an ecological bioreactor and an opera performed by mutated worms

23 November 2010

NGI Valorisation Award 2010: €1 million for Cancer Genomics Centre and Centre for Medical Systems Biology

11 November 2010

More knowledge with less animals

8 October 2010

Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award

7 October 2010

Launch LifeSciences@work

6 October 2010

More knowledge, better tests, less animal testing...

5 October 2010

Global Sustainable Bioenergy Convention North America

4 October 2010

Genetic risk factor discovered for migraine

4 October 2010

Metabolomics 2010: Largest ever International Metabolomics Congress huge success!

2 September 2010

Booster Grants for public-private partnerships

2 September 2010

Improved identification of male offender

1 September 2010

Call for Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award

18 June 2010

ClearDetections wins Venture Challenge Spring 2010

15 June 2010

First round Zenith projects

14 June 2010

Cristal Delivery winner Masterclass BioBusiness

14 June 2010

Postdoc Career Retreat great success!

11 June 2010

Achmea reimburses breast cancer test

11 June 2010

Hub Zwart on imagery in science

11 June 2010

Long live DNA?! Rode Hoed Science Cafe

10 June 2010

Mibiton invests in FlexGen and FeyeCon

10 June 2010

Valorisation grants for Horizon projects

10 June 2010

CSG prize for book ‘Chemistry of Addiction’

9 June 2010

Management team NMC changes

9 June 2010

Extra boost systems biology

9 June 2010

Detectives try their hand at DNA research

9 June 2010

Appeal to politicians: more knowledge, better tests, less animal testing

8 June 2010

Thirty-one Horizon Breakthrough projects granted!

8 June 2010

Ritsert Jansen collaborates with Jackson Laboratory (USA)

8 June 2010

Symposium in honour of Bartha Knoppers

7 June 2010

Gert-Jan van Ommen Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion

7 June 2010

Opening Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine

4 June 2010

Six stipends for exchange of top scientists

4 June 2010

Effect of age on response to bird flu

3 June 2010

Two new loci for Alzheimer’s Disease identified

3 June 2010

Four million for Systems Biology Centre for Energy Metabolism and Ageing

3 June 2010

Worm study sheds new light on age-related degeneration

2 June 2010

Favourable glucose metabolism in familial longevity

2 June 2010

Gene expression profiles for lung cancer

1 June 2010

Easier to check alibis of suspects

26 April 2010

Genedata new member of Kluyver Centre Industrial Platform

26 April 2010

Jeroen Hugenholtz joins Coca Cola Germany

26 April 2010

Test for the prediction of eye colour available

25 April 2010

Ecogenomics Innovation Center (ECOLINC)

25 April 2010

€ 4 million for Celiac Disease Consortium

25 April 2010

Nutrigenomics embedded within Top Institute Food
and Nutrition

25 April 2010

VIRGO Consortium starts VIRGO-II

25 April 2010

Production of chemicals from wood waste

25 April 2010

Management team NCHA changes

24 April 2010

Genetic risk factor for osteoarthritis identified

24 April 2010

Mobile signal protein involved in cell specification of plants

24 April 2010

ERC Advanced Grants for cancer research

23 April 2010

National DNA lab day for teachers a huge success

23 April 2010

Imagine … a biobag to change the world

23 April 2010

Europe kicks off Global Bioenergy Project

22 April 2010

INSTRUCT: Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure
for Europe

22 April 2010

How plants produce flowers

22 April 2010

Novel candidate cancer genes identified

22 April 2010

Forensic Science programme: Expressions of Interest welcome!

15 March 2010

Luc Rietveld joins AWT

12 March 2010

No health care due to wrong genes?

12 March 2010

Healthy Ageing in Dutch Newspapers

11 March 2010

CSG awards utility of social genomics research

11 March 2010

CBSG and Kluyver Centre join forces

10 March 2010

Life sciences and medical sciences in evolutionary framework

10 March 2010

Genome-Wide Association Studies of MRI-Defined Brain Infarcts

10 March 2010

Queen Wilhelmina Research Prize for immune therapy
against cancer

9 March 2010

New model for stem cell regulation

9 March 2010

New model for stem cell regulation

9 March 2010

Valorisation of Horizon Breakthrough projects

8 March 2010

NPC Valorisation Voucher for Bobby Florea

8 March 2010

Win € 25,000 with food/biodiversity business plan

8 March 2010

CBSG research has direct impact on R&D Investments

1 March 2010

Minister Van der Hoeven lays first bio-brick BE-Basic

9 February 2010

Participate in Holland Pavilion on the BIO

1 February 2010

NGI scores well at FES

1 February 2010

Avital Lievendag NGI Manager Communications

29 January 2010

Call for nominations Franklin Institute Award

29 January 2010

Free Retreat for NGI Postdocs!

28 January 2010

Life Sciences Pre-Seed Grant

28 January 2010

New Venture round 2

28 January 2010

Investment BioGeneration Ventures in Medisse

27 January 2010

CSG advises on Trend Analysis Biotechnology 2009

27 January 2010

Heck visiting Professor ETH Zürich

26 January 2010

Dies Natalis lecture University of Leiden about human ageing

26 January 2010

Travel stipend for top researchers 2010

25 January 2010

Migraine and depression: shared genetic factors

22 January 2010

TOP grant for research into papilloma virus

21 January 2010

Low thyroid hormone level marker for longevity

21 January 2010

Identification of genetic loci involved in heart disease

20 January 2010

New DNA variants for risk of type 2 diabetes

20 January 2010

Osterhaus, De Vos and Bernards win ERC Advanced Grants

18 January 2010

Biomarker discovery for head and neck cancer

18 January 2010

Announcement: Masterclass BioBusiness 2010

15 January 2010

NPC researchers receive STW Grant for characterization of antibodies

6 January 2010

Call for Proposals on Biotechnology and Health

14 December 2009

MAXAM Medical: Winner Investors Forum, Life Sciences Capitals 2009 congress

10 December 2009

Pluriomics wins the NGI Venture Challenge Fall 2009

9 December 2009

Annemiek Nelis leaves Centre for Society and Genomics

9 December 2009

Dow Energy Award for Jack Pronk

9 December 2009

Queen Wilhelmina Research Prize for Hans Clevers

9 December 2009

Strong interest for Life Sciences Pre-Seed Grant

8 December 2009

NGI sponsors Postdoc Retreat 2010

8 December 2009

VIRGO Consortium has ambitious plans for Valorisation Award

8 December 2009

Prosensa forms alliance with GlaxoSmithKline to fight Duchenne

8 December 2009

Dyadic Netherlands joins Kluyver Centre Industrial Platform

7 December 2009

Institutionalisation of elderly a hurdle to reach their 100th anniversary?

7 December 2009

Therapeutic vaccine against human papillomavirus

7 December 2009

First complete tomato genome release!

4 December 2009

Genetic study offers insight into variation in red blood cell determinants

4 December 2009

CBSG and Indian NIPGR sign collaboration agreement

4 December 2009

Genomics tools are fundamental for understanding zoonotic viral diseases

3 December 2009

Inspiring NCSB symposium was well attended

3 December 2009

NGI Distinguished Visiting Scientist Stipend

3 December 2009

Many applicants for Horizon Breakthrough projects

2 December 2009

NGI backing the winners of iGEM

2 December 2009

ERA-Net Plant Genomics will end in 2010

1 December 2009

Nominations for De Zilveren Zandlopers welcome!

25 November 2009

Breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste

20 November 2009

Forensic Genomics Consortium kicks off

5 November 2009

The most relevant publication in society & genomics - call open for submissions

23 October 2009

KeyGene delivers sequence-based physical map of the 950 Mb tomato genome to CBSG and the International SOL Consortium

20 October 2009

VIRGO Consortium wins €1 million NGI Valorisation Award 2009

19 October 2009

"Partners in the Polder" - a vision for the Dutch Life Sciences

15 October 2009

NGI Centres participate in Darwin Year activities

15 October 2009

Kick-off Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology

15 October 2009

Kluyver Centre joins Global Sustainable Bioenergy Project

14 October 2009

Imagine in Surinam

14 October 2009

Children’s potato art

13 October 2009

Uncovering stem cell differentiation

13 October 2009

Science for primary education

13 October 2009

Final round of Horizon Breakthrough projects open for submission

12 October 2009

“Bioinformatics for proteomics” wins dynamic lightpaths competition

12 October 2009

Introducing the new CBSG Directors!

12 October 2009

NGI becomes New Venture partner

9 October 2009

Offspring of long-lived people are better glucose-handlers

9 October 2009

Australian Shadow Minister of Ageing visits the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing

9 October 2009

Investment BioGeneration Ventures in arGEN-X

8 October 2009

Record number of applications NGI Venture Challenge

8 October 2009

Prosensa announces successful phase I/II clinical studies

8 October 2009

First NPC Valorisation Voucher granted

7 October 2009

Stress-responses of human skin cells reflect human longevity

7 October 2009

Study on bone mineral density identifies thirteen new loci

6 October 2009

CGC researcher wins prestigious ERC Starting Grant

6 October 2009

CBSG publications hit the top!

6 October 2009

Kluyver Centre collaboration with China started

21 August 2009

Ecogenomics programme - call open for submissions

19 August 2009

Pre-Seed Grant now Life Sciences Broad

22 July 2009

Imagine Life Sciences is looking for new project proposals

3 July 2009

ZonMw Pearl for successful cultivation of human skin

25 June 2009

FarmaScreen wins NGI Venture Challenge 2009

23 June 2009

Colja Laane: Life Sciences vision taking shape

23 June 2009

Valorisation Advisory Board gives advice

23 June 2009

NGI and yels.net bundle their strengths

23 June 2009

Art Project “Reboot” - the first female genome

23 June 2009

Winners Imagine 2009: orange peels for Colombian economy

23 June 2009

Kluyver Centre launches Global Biorenewables Research Society

22 June 2009

Stipends for exchange of top scientists

22 June 2009

31 researchers granted Horizon Breakthrough Project

22 June 2009

DNA based prediction of eye colour

22 June 2009

‘Rank Prize for Nutrition’ for Frits Koning

22 June 2009

Increased control over preventing diabetes

22 June 2009

Genetic risk for joint destruction in Rheumatoid Arthritis

22 June 2009

Predicting complex diseases by DNA

22 June 2009

New genetic targets for ageing

22 June 2009

CBSG initiates collaboration with India

22 June 2009

Kluyver Centre organises international conference

22 June 2009

Province supports NTC Business Case

22 June 2009

Apply for NPC Valorisation Vouchers!

22 June 2009

Agendia opens genomics lab

22 June 2009

Magazine genomics@work is available!

16 June 2009

2.5 million for research into biological networks

14 April 2009

50.000th high school student participates in DNA labs on the Road

26 March 2009

Screening of athletes’ genes on the sports agenda

26 March 2009

Recommendations to European Parliament on sustainable biofuels

26 March 2009

Strong interest in Horizon grant

26 March 2009

Clear effect of probiotics in the gut of healthy adults

26 March 2009

€ 22,5 million grant for Dutch biobank consortium

26 March 2009

Noninvasive MR spectroscopy in living mouse brain

26 March 2009

Loci influencing lipid levels and coronary heart disease risk in European cohorts

26 March 2009

Healthy purple tomatoes gain massive global attention

26 March 2009

Systems Biology approach reveals the extent of hidden variability in plants

26 March 2009

New spin-off Kluyver Centre makes exclusive antifungal substances

26 March 2009

Danone strengthens Industrial Platform of Kluyver Centre

26 March 2009

New chip for simplified analysis of phoshopeptides

26 March 2009

Prosensa raises € 18 million financing

25 March 2009

Enthusiasm still strong for start-up companies in Life Sciences

25 March 2009

BioGeneration Ventures announces new investments

25 March 2009

Colja Laane: NGI in sign of FES (Structural Economic Reinforcement Fund)

11 March 2009

ERA-Net Plant Genomics funds 12 transnational research projects through second joint call

4 March 2009

CBSG director Willem Stiekema to Amsterdam

13 February 2009

Beat the flu virus

13 February 2009

NGI Pre-Seed Grant is now open for submissions

12 February 2009

Participate in the NGI Venture Challenge 2009!

30 January 2009

Festive opening of Kluyver Centre 2008 - 2012

19 November 2008

NGI Genomics Centres from Leiden win 1M€ NGI Valorisation Award 2008

7 November 2008

NGI stimulates breakthroughs in genomics research - Horizon grant

6 November 2008

October Month of Knowledge – Crack the code

5 November 2008

NGI awards NBIC €12,5 million and NPC €20 million for second phase, 2009 - 2012

21 October 2008

New composition NGI Supervisory Board

1 October 2008

ERASysBio - 2nd Call open for submission

2 September 2008

NGI Pre-Seed Grant open for submissions

8 July 2008

Colja Laane: ‘Valorisation is the name of the game'

8 July 2008

The fellowship of the genes

8 July 2008

700,000 spots from 13,000 genomes

8 July 2008

Breakthrough in protein research

8 July 2008

Unravel the code

8 July 2008

NERO: focus on ecogenomics

7 July 2008

For the first time in history a women’s entire genome is unravelled

7 July 2008

Researchers identify genes involved in cancer development

7 July 2008

NGI Valorisation Award 1 M€

7 July 2008

Agendia’s MammaPrint® wins prestigious Innovation Platform award

5 July 2008

Stuck between Proof of Concept and Venture Capital?

4 July 2008

35.000th pupil participates in Mobile DNA lab

30 June 2008

Participate in NGI Venture Challenge 2008!

20 May 2008

First NGI Venture Challenge for promising start-ups

24 April 2008

Colja Laane appointed new Director of NGI

14 April 2008

NGI Valorisation Network visits Technology Transfer Office of Leuven Catholic University

10 April 2008

Minister Van der Hoeven meets NGI at ‘Life Science and Health’

31 March 2008

Second generation sequencer boosts plant research

13 March 2008

Mobile DNA labs win "Zilveren Zandloper"

4 March 2008

Colja Laane appointed new Director of NGI

25 January 2008

BioGeneration Ventures announces new investments

25 January 2008

Diederik Zijderveld from NGI to TNO

5 November 2007

Change in the NGI Management team

17 October 2007

NGI announces Business Plan 2008 – 2012

18 September 2007

Dutch Cabinet awards NGI € 271 million

10 September 2007

BioGeneration Ventures Fund announces its first investment

25 July 2007

Change in the NGI team

5 June 2007

Change in the NGI Management team