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Keynote speaker: Marcel van den Brink with his talk 'The role of the intestinal microbiome in cancer immunotherapy'. 
Young investigator in the spotlight: Nicolien de Clercq, her talk is titled 'Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Cancer'. 
Host: Mette Hazenberg. Inflammatory Diseases program. 
Date, time and location: September 6, 16.00 - 17.00 hrs, online. 

Table of contents

AII Prizes and Grants
Highlights

PhD defence ceremonies
Upcoming events, courses and webinars
Beijerinck Virology Prizes 2023

Professor of Precision Medicine in Respiratory Disease Anke-Hilse Maitland-Van der Zee is one of the three Guiding Star finalists for the TOPX Females to Follow Awards. The award for female professionals who have made a significant contribution to the health and life sciences sector. The award ceremony will be held on the 22nd of September in Oss. 

A large proportion of patients with an immune disorder who received the drug sotrovimab because of a covid infection (Omikron variant) turned out to develop resistance to this drug very rapidly due to specific mutations in the coronavirus
Dr. Gertjan Wolbink and his team studied the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with an inflammatory rheumatic disease. One of their findings: after vaccination rheumatoid arthritis patients taking the drug Rituximab are less protected against a COVID-19 infection. 
For the first time, Ghana is facing the Marburg virus. Thanks to the successful handling in West Africa of the comparable Ebola virus, no major outbreak is expected. Professor of tropical medicine Martin Grobusch shares his knowledge about the virus.  
New discovery: Locally administered cancer immunotherapy may offer a safe and effective treatment for early-stage melanoma patients, without the severe inflammatory side effects often seen with systemic immunotherapy. 
Of the more than seven hundred infections with the monkey pox virus in the Netherlands, about 60 per cent have been identified in Amsterdam. This also applies to the only infected child. Welkers: ‘We need to be aware that children can become infected with monkeypox via a non-sexual route.’
“Corona has had preferential treatment in healthcare for too long”, argues Armand Girbes, head of intensive care VUmc at Amsterdam UMC in response to research by the RIVM. This shows that postponing non-acute operations in 2020 and 2021 has cost at least 320,000 healthy years of life. 
The Lancet, one of the world's most renowned scientific journals, has published a profile article on Marceline Tutu van Furth, Professor of Infectious Diseases in Pediatrics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, as being an inspiration to future medical leaders.

PhD defence ceremonies

Sarah Girdwood, Optimising Infectious Disease Diagnostic Networks in Low-Resource Settings Improving Access and Costs, September 7th, 11.00 hrs, University Auditorium, University of Amsterdam. 
Jelle van Schooten, Fine-mapping HIV-1 antibody responses to guide vaccine design, September 9th, 10.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel. 
Wouter Bom, Diagnosis and treatment of complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis, September 9th, 13.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel. 
Cornelis de Pijper, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? | Who guards our guardians? September 9th, 14.00 hrs, University Auditorium, University of Amsterdam. 
Mohammed Ghiboub, Targeting the Immune Epigenome in Crohn’s Disease, September 14th, 11.00 hrs, University Auditorium, University of Amsterdam. 
Stijn de Jonge, Prevention of surgical site infection | A unified effort across the drape divide, September 14th, 10.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel. 
Marlies van Haaren, Antiviral monoclonal antibodies inform vaccine design, September 14th, 13.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel. 
Floris de Voogd, Point-of-care ultrasonography for the monitoring of inflammatory bowel disease, September 21st, 16.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel.
Merlijn Kaaij, Connecting inflammation, blood vessels and bone in spondyloarthritis, September 23rd, 16.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel. 

Upcoming events, courses and webinars

Writing a Data Management Plan course for VUmc PhD candidates, first year PhD candidates and junior researchers of the VUmc, September 5th 2022 from 09.00 - 12.00 hrs, online. Registration via mail

Clinical evening Tropical Medicine, September 15th 2022 from 19.15 - 22.00 hrs, Lecture room 4 of the Academic Medical Centre. Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam. Entrance: Main entrance AMC.

Inaugural lecture Dasja Pajkrt, 'Let's go viral', October 7th 2022 at 16.30 hrs, University Auditorium, entrance Singel 411, corner Spui.

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 2022. New registrations are placed on the waiting list. 

The Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Symposium: Migration and Health, November 3rd 2022, for more information please contact AIGHD Communications via e-mail

PhD Course Immunophenotyping by flow cytometry and multiplexed immunohistochemistry, a (5-day) postgraduate-level course, November 7th until 11th 2022, O2 Lab Building, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam. 

yEFIS Symposium: Shaping the Future of Immunology in Europe, the first conference organized by and for early-career researchers in Europe, November 10th and 11th 2022, Register via this link

ACE Incubation Program Fall '22, a 10-week program of training & support, November 14th 2022 (startdate), Startup Village, Science Park 608, 1098 XH Amsterdam, send an e-mail for more information. 

Translational Intensive Care Medicine Symposium, November 25th 2022 from 09.00 - 18.00 hrs, West-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam. 

Symposium, Imaging meets immunology, on the occasion of the inauguration of Prof. Conny van der Laken, November 25th 2022 from 09.30 - 14.45 hrs, Amstelzaal of the Amsterdam UMC location VUmc, RSVP by mail

Inaugural lecture Conny van der Laken, November 25th 2022 from 15.45 -16.30 hrs, Auditorium of the Vrije Universiteit. 

IDSA 2022: Infectious Diseases Symposium, December 14th 2022 from 09.00 - 18.00 hrs, Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3 1019 BR Amsterdam

Symposium on the occasion of the emeritus of Prof. Maarten Boers, December 15th 2022 from 10.00 - 15.00 hrs, VU main building (De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam).

Farewell Address Prof. Maarten Boers, December 15th 2022, Auditorium of the VU main building (De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam).

Call for nominations: Beijerinck Prizes for Virology 2023 awarded by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) 

Submission of nominations: 

  • The M.W. Beijerinck Virology Prize is awarded every two years to an internationally recognized researcher who has made a pioneering contribution to virology, in the broadest sense of the word. The prize, a cash sum of €35,000 and a medal bearing the effigy of M.W. Beijerinck, was established in 1965 in memory of virologist M.W. Beijerinck (1851-1931).
  • The Beijerinck Premie is a cash prize of € 25,000 and is awarded to a talented researcher at the beginning of his/her career who is working on excellent virus-related research in the Netherlands.

Candidates for the Premie and the Prize can be nominated until 30 October 2022. Before nominating, please review the procedure and guidelines of the Beijerinck Prizes here: Prize and Premie
 
The Beijerinck Prizes will be awarded during the Dutch Annual Virology Symposium on March 10, 2023.
  
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