As part of our new series of Career Talks, MERLN has invited Anique ter Braake to talk about her transition from academia to M Ventures, a corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of Merck. You will also learn more about M Ventures: career possibilities, cooperation with universities, and how to form a strategic alliance with a CVC. If you're not a MERLN member, please send an email to Omar Paulino to get the Zoom link if you'd like to attend this lecture.

On the 5th and 6th of February 2021, the Institute of Data Science is hosting a series of events for the 2nd Women in Data Science Datathon in the Netherlands. You will gain or improve your data science skills by building, testing, and exploring solutions to tackle a challenge from real-life patient health data. Following the WiDS mission, you will work on the data challenge in a gender-balanced team. Students and professionals from both academia and industry can join our events full of creativity, inspiration, and fun. If you are unsure about your data science skills, check out our training sessions on the 5th and 6th of February in the early morning.
Try something new, apply what you know, learn from other participants and improve your data science skills along the way! Registration deadline is 31 January. Click here for more information.

In the next Brightlands Chemelot Campus science lecture webinar on February 4th, MERLN's Pamela Habibovic and Niloofar Tahmasebi will be giving two lectures entitled "Engineering instructive biomaterials for regenerative medicine" and "Instructive biomaterials beyond nature". The program starts at 12:00. Find out more about the lectures here or immediately sign up for the webinar here.

On the 19th and the 20th of November, the first digital Annual MDR meeting will take place. The event will be completely virtual, with life stream presentations, pre-recorded presentations, poster pitches, all moderated with a live Q&A. Of course, MERLN is also represented and you can listen to lectures by Aurélie Carlie, Matt Baker, and Sabine van Rijt. More information on the program and how to register can be found here.

The annual congress of the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) goes digital this year. You can enjoy 3-days of cutting-edge and lively exchanges from 22-24 October 2020. Find out more here. The congress is accompanied by a series of ECTS@Home weekly classes from October till December.

The class on October 14 features a Workshop on Bone Tissue Engineering and will start off with a lecture by Pamela Habibovic.

Martijn van Griensven will be giving an online seminar as part of the TERMIS-EU Seminar Series, organized by Trento University on June 3rd from 16:30-18:30. His seminar is entitled: "Muskoloskeletal tissue engineering: in vivo model design". An abstract can be found here. You can email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to obtain the Zoom link and login details.

Conference has been postponed due to coronavirus crisis.

The first Dutch RNA Conference, which will encompass the most exciting areas of RNA research in the Netherlands, will take place in The Hague on May 8-9. MERLN is happy to be introduced into the Dutch RNA Network and Elizabeth Rosado Balmayor will be one of the speakers in the RNA-based therapeutics session. The deadline for registration is April 15, 2020.

The Maastricht Science Program has invited Paul Wieringa to give a BYA lecture on "MERLN Perspectives and Challenges in Tissue Engineering & How to become a MERLNer". This event will take place in room KAP1.009, Kapoenstraat 2 at 18:30. An abstract and poster are available.

During the Master's Open Day of Maastricht Univeristy, you can learn more about what our University can offer you in the way of personal and professional development. MERLN's master in Regenerative Medicine will also be represented. Find out more info, including the Open Day schedule, here. 

Brightlands is launcing its 2020 Glossy Magazine. In this new edition they look back to the year 2019. During the launch event on March 5, some of the main characters from the glossy will be part of a panel discussion, which includes MERLN's Mireille Sthijns. More information can be found here.