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Martijn van Griensven receives the ‘Career Achievement Award’ at TERMIS

22 April 2026
We are extremely proud to announce that Martijn van Griensven received the ‘Career Achievement Award’ at the TERMIS-EU 2026 Conference in Palma de Mallorca. During the award ceremony, Martijn share…
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David Kilian receives grant from NWO and the National Growth Fund

31 March 2026
We are proud to share that a consortium led by David Kilian has been awarded a research grant from NWO and the National Growth Fund’s Cellular Agriculture (CA) program for his project 'MeatUp –…
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Recap ISAB visit

17 March 2026
Recap ISAB visit On the 6th of March, we welcomed our International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) for a second meeting at MERLN in Maastricht. The ISAB is composed of five independent advisors, S…
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MERLN PhD Day 2025

04 December 2025
Recap PhD Day 2025 On the 1st of October, MERLNs PhD Day 2025 took place. The program featured a diverse line-up of speakers including Sebastien Callens from TU Eindhoven and Elena Della Bella from…
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MERLN researchers are awarded with the NWO Perspective Grant

03 December 2025
We are pleased to announce that Roman Truckenmüller, Paul Wieringa, Niloofar Tahmasebi Birgani, and Erik Vrij have been awarded the prestigious NWO Perspective Grant for the project ‘FEMCHIP – Tackli…
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Adrián Seijas-Gamardo is awarded the Faculty of Impact NWO grant

28 November 2025
MERLNs PhD Candidate Adrián Seijas-Gamardo is awarded with the Faculty of Impact award with the project 'Fibercyte: Simplicity for the complex organ-on-a-chip revolution'. FiberCyte is a new tec…
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Aurélie Carlier receives the NWO Athena Award

26 November 2025
We are extremely proud to announce that MERLNs Principal Investigator Aurélie Carlier receives the Athena Award from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This award is for exceptiona…
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Letting bone and cartilage repair themselves

29 October 2025
When you have a wound on your skin, the skin usually repairs itself in a few weeks. That principle forms the basis of regenerative medicine: investigating how the body can repair itself with minimal…
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Aurélie Carlier receives the NWO Vidi Grant

23 October 2025
We are happy to announce that Principal Investigator, Aurélie Carlier, receives the NWO Vidi Grant for her research project 'Cracking the kidney code: understanding how women and men r…
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