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Only two days left: this Thursday the 5th Annual Symposium of AII will take place! 
We look forward to welcoming you all on Thursday for our 5th AII Annual Symposium at the Openbare Bibliotheek in the centre of Amsterdam. 

Not registered yet? Then do so quickly via this link. You do not want to miss this! 

Table of contents

AII Prizes and Grants
Highlights
AII upcoming events
PhD defence ceremonies

 
Upcoming events, courses and webinars
AII/CCA mentoring program
AII Affiliations

AII Prizes and Grants 

Henry de Vries, dermatologist and professor of skin infections, has won a Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award. A prize of 25,000 Euros to work out, together with artist Kuang-Yi Ku, the project Filthy Anatomy.
Researcher Arnon Kater (Internal Medicine) has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant of EUR 150,000 from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate the commercial or societal potential of one of his research projects.
Rheumatologist and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Maarten Boers received the Carol Nachman Prize for Rheumatology, this prize serves to promote clinical, therapeutic and experimental research work in the field of rheumatology.

Highlights

Experts start warning: there is a corona wave ahead. At this point in time experts cannot predict exactly how this next wave will develop. Marjolein van Egmond: 'What we need to do above all is keep a close eye on the virus'.

The GLORIA study from rheumatologist and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Maarten Boers has demonstrated that people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can safely take a low daily dose of prednisolone in addition to standard medication.
35 dogs with bladder cancer were treated with a cancer vaccine. This doubled the average survival rate of the dogs. "An important step towards developing a cancer vaccine for humans", says researcher Arjan Griffioen.
Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) are better off with a combination treatment with ibrutinib and venetoclax. These drugs each inhibit the growth of cancer cells in complementary ways, making their combination more effective than the current treatment standard. 

AII upcoming events

5th Annual Symposium of AII: The Annual Symposium will take place in the Openbare Bibliotheek in the center of Amsterdam on Thursday, June 23rd
AII Science Communication Workshop: Learn the basics of science communication and how to make impact with science! This workshop is organized by the AII Postdoc Committee at Truus, Volkshotel, Amsterdam, June 27th from 17.00 - 19.00. 
AII PhD Retreat 2022: A two-day event with a mixture of interactive social, scientific, career, and educational program components incl. hotel-stay. The PhD Retreat takes place at the van der Valk Hotel de Bilt, Utrecht, November 3rd and 4th. 

PhD defence ceremonies

All defenses are hybrid. More info AMC and VUmc.
Tanca Minderhoud, Finding sepsis, what we seek and what we find, June 22nd, 13.45 u, VUmc Aula
Boas van der Putten, Using genomics to understand the global spread of Escherichia coli and antimicrobial resistance, June 24th, 11.00 u, University Auditorium (UvA)
Lizzy Wijmans, Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy for diagnosing respiratory diseases, June 24th, 13.00 u, Agnietenkapel
Ivan Ramirez Moral, Immunometabolism and Immunomodulation in the Airways |Novel Strategies to Treat Pneumonia, July 1st, 10.00 u, Agnietenkapel 
Joyce Braam, To treat or not to treat: Antimicrobial resistant Mycoplasma genitalium, July 1st, 11.00 u, University Auditorium (UVA)
Zhe Liu, The contribution of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase to innate host defense during bacterial infections, July 6th, 10.00 u, Online 

Upcoming events, courses and webinars

22nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Dutch Society for Experimental Dermatology, June 23rd and 24th, 09.30 u, “de Werelt” in Lunteren, register via this link

Course: Writing a Data Management Plan, June 27th, 09.00 - 12.00 u, Online via Zoom, register before the 19th of June via e-mail

Workshop: How to write successful MSCA-PF applications (Research Grant Support), a digital two-part workshop specifically designed for applicants of this year's MSCA postdoctoral fellowship, participants are expected to attend both sessions, June 28th and 29th, 09.00 - 11.00 u, online, register via this link

Sanquin Lecture - Ferenc Scheeren, June 28th, 13.00 - 14.00 u, Auditorium Sanquin, Plesmanlaan 125 1066 CX Amsterdam. 

Inaugural lecture Mette Hazenberg, 'Diversity, cell therapy and the blood principle', June 30th, 16.30 u, Auditorium of the University of Amsterdam, the Oude Lutherse Kerk (Singel 411) in Amsterdam.

Translational Intensive Care Medicine Symposium, Friday, 25 November 2022 from 09:00 - 18:00, West-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam. 

AII/CCA mentoring program

Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity and Cancer Center Amsterdam have created a mentoring program to connect researchers from alle levels with more senior people. The ultimate goal of this program is to make sure everybody gets most out of their academic careers. Please fill in this small form if you want to connect with a mentor (and be a mentor yourself). 

AII Affiliations

As a researcher, you are required to include the correct affiliation address on scientific publications. In consultation with major publishers, the address line of Amsterdam UMC was recently adjusted.

Please apply this new address line consistently to your scientific publications so that the research institutes are more visible in large, international databases such as Scopus and Web of Science.

The new address line: 

Affiliated to the University of Amsterdam (UvA):
Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department(s), Meibergdreef 9,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Affiliated to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU):
Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department(s), De
Boelelaan 1117, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Research institute: 
Name of research institute, program(s), Amsterdam, the Netherlands


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