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AII Seminar Serie - March 2023
Keynote speaker: Aurélien Marabelle with his lecture "Intratumoral immunotherapy for tumor-specific Treg depletion : from mice to patients".
Host: Tanja de Gruijl, Cancer Immunology program. 
Date, time and location: March 7, 16.00 - 17.00 hrs, Auditorium O2 building, location VUMC, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam. The seminar is followed by drinks. 

Check out our AII seminar serie overview for 2023 here. 

WANTED: AII 2023 PhD retreat committee
Do you want to expand on your organizational, communication, networking, problemsolving, creativity and planning skills? 

Our new AII PhD committee is still looking for 4 new members. 

Sign-up or reach out for more information via e-mail. 

Table of contents
AII Prizes, Grants and Appointments
AII Highlights
Amsterdam UMC News 
PhD defence ceremonies
Upcoming events, courses and webinars
Amsterdam UMC Fellowship
OKE Fund: Master Epidemiology
Lowlands Science: open call 
Science weekend
Renske Hebing was awarded the AII Extension Grant in 2021 for her research proposal “Pharmacokinetics of Oral and Subcutaneous Methotrexate in Red and White Blood Cells in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis – the Methotrexate Monitoring Trial (MeMo study)”. Recently, Renske’s article was published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (ARD).
Dr. Kornel Golebski and Prof. Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee received a ZonMW grant worth 248.000 euros to investigate preclinical technology for the development of COVID-19 therapy.
Prof. Nurmohamed: ‘The Medicines Evaluation Board is where it happens’. Michael Nurmohamed has been a member of the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) since 2020. In this article, Prof. Nurmohamed takes us through his experiences at the MEB, his fascination with inflammatory diseases and cardiovascular complaints, and his plans for the future.
For the series Onderwater Ondervraagt, Laurien Onderwater interviews Dutch scientists. In January 2023, it was the turn of our Marjolein van Egmond, immunologist at Amsterdam UMC. The article elaborates on Prof. Van Egmond's research in which she focuses on antibodies and their role in autoimmune diseases and cancer.
This February, Tiago Matos, dermatologist and research fellow in the department of dermatology at Amsterdam UMC can be found on the cover of Dutch medical magazine, Medisch Contact.
Getting to the bottom of why immunotherapy fails in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Could understanding how Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia manipulates T-cell populations improve outcomes for patients that have exhausted all other options?
Carriers of a specific hidden bacteria have a 14% chance of developing an antibiotic resistant infection with 30 days of hospitalisation, according to researchers from Amsterdam UMC. 
Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Radboud UMC discovered that people living with HIV that were screened for anal cancer precursors were more likely to be diagnosed with anal cancer. This diagnosis occured at an earlier disease stage than unscreened individuals, resulting in better survival.
Make sure to register the medical device you are developing or modifying. All medical devices that are developed or adapted within Amsterdam UMC for patient care or for scientific research must be registered. If you have developed or adapted a medical device, please read what you need to do in the article.
Get inspired to join the 2023 Freezer Challenge! Last year, the Freezer Challenge led to impressive sustainability results. This year we hope that many (new) labs of Amsterdam UMC will take part in the challenge as well, to save even more.

PhD defence ceremonies
Tineke de Jong, Premature aging of the stromal microenvironment in rheumatoid arthritis | Towards prevention of disease by targeting cellular aging, March 17th, 13.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Sara Faria Fernandes Pereira Dias, Sex and gender differences in bacterial meningitis, March 29th, 16.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel (Universiteit van Amsterdam). 
Arthur Lieveld, Acute and critical care diagnostics in COVID-19, March 29th, 09.45 hrs, Aula, Vrije Universiteit. 
Micah Heldeweg, Lung ultrasound in critical care, March 29th, 11.45 hrs, Aula, Vrije Universiteit. 
Mark Haaksma, Point of Care Ultrasound of the Respiratory System in the Critically Ill, March 29th, 13.45 hrs, Aula, Vrije Universiteit. 
Job van Bragt, Optimizing treatment for airways diseases | Using exhaled biomarkers and real world data, March 30th, 10.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 
Jelle Koopsen, Virus Genomic Epidemiology to Inform Public Health Policy | Understanding hepatitis C virus and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in elimination and outbreak settings, April 4th, 15.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 
Michelle Klouwens, Vaccines to prevent Lyme Borreliosis, April 6th, 16.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 

Upcoming events, courses and webinars

Meeting: Make peer support for people living with HIV the norm! Join the conversation about new developments in peer support for people living with HIV in the Netherlands, March 9th 2023, 16.00 - 19.30, De Witte Vosch, Oudegracht 46, 3511 AG Utrecht. Sign up. 

Dutch Society for Immunology Spring Symposium, New Horizons in Immunology, March 23rd until 24th 2023, van der Valk Hotel Tiel, register here. 

Explore Entrepreneurship (VU) | Transform your innovation into a business idea! Learn the basics of venture creation and explore ways to transform your innovation into a business idea. The program is open to PhDs at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and teams will be formed during the program. March 29th and April 5th 2023, VU Campus. 

10th Bertine Koperberg Conference, Molecular Fingerprinting of auto-immune disease: from environment to cell, April 13th until 15th 2023, Hotel Zuiderduin, Zeeweg 52 1931 VL Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, registration fee 125 euros register here. 

ImmunoMetNet Amsterdam UMC symposium at AMC, an ImmunoMetabolism symposium building a Network between immunology and metabolism research and medicine, April 25th 2023, 16.00 - 18.00 hrs, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC. 

Farewell symposium and lecture Prof. dr. Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Looking into the future of arthritis, May 11th 2023, 09.30 - 18.00 hrs, register here. 

NWO Life, annual scientific congress covering all disciplines in the Dutch Life Sciences at all scales, researchers at all scientific research institutes including the university medical centres in the Netherlands, in all career phases, are invited to contribute, May 23rd until 24th 2023, Egmond aan Zee, register here. 

Inaugural lecture Prof. dr. Sander Tas, June 15th 2023, 16.30 hrs. 

ImmunoMetNet Annual Meeting, June 15th 2023, 09.00 - 17.00 hrs, O2 Building auditorium at VUmc. 

ASAP Symposium 2023, explore important topics concerning the Amsterdam UMC PhD system and its candidates, November 8th 2023, 14.30 - 17.00 hrs. 

The Amsterdam UMC Fellowship vacancy (maximum of €750,000 for five years) for 2023 is open for applications. The fellowship aims to attract extremely talented researchers, who have the potential to build, expand and maintain their own successful research group. The fellowship includes a tenure track with the possibility to acquire a tenured position after five years.

Deadline for application: March 6 2023. 
More information. 

The fund supports young clinicians at Amsterdam UMC who, in addition to their training to become general practitioners, specialists, occupational physicians, etc., wish to delve further into scientific research and train as Epidemiologists.

The OKE fund will reimburse 50% of (max. € 8,495) the tuition fees for the Master's program in Epidemiology organized by EpidM. 

This call is for physicians in their PhD program and young staff members of all research institutes of Amsterdam UMC. 

Deadline for application: March 10 2023. 
More information. 

Lowlands Science is the science program of Lowlands, one of the Netherlands' largest and best-known festivals. Lowlands, The National Science Agenda (NWA), New Scientist and BKB | The Campaign Office invite scientists to submit a research proposal to be carried out during the festival on August 18, 19 and 20, 2023. 

Deadline for application: March 31 2023. 
Proposal submission: Research proposals should be submitted using this form. 
More information. 

On October 7th and 8th 2023, during Science Weekend, everyone everywhere in the Netherlands can take a look behind the scenes of science. This way, Dutch people can experience technology and science up close. Science weekend is focused on children between the ages of 8-14 with their (grand)parents.

What does Science Weekend offer?

  • Participate in a national media campaign via Quest and Kidsweek, among others.
  • Free online and offline promotion package (including buttons & template posters and social media)
  • Your own page for your activity(ies) on weekendvandewetenschap.nl
  • Support with press approach via a.o. standard press releases
  • Inspiration Toolbox for organizing a fun (online) activity

Would you like to demonstrate your research during Science Weekend? Sign-up here!
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Please register via our website or this form!
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