Marianna Tryfonidou, Chantal Voskamp, Aida Moreira, and Daniele Corraini will have an oral presentation at the ISSLS conference to be held in Milan on May 27-31st! Lisanne Laagland will present two posters. Come check out our work!

It feels like yesterday that the iPSpine project started, but it’s almost coming to an end already! It’s been a wonderful ride and we will close it with a final consortium meeting to be held on May 22-24th in Utrecht. We hope to see all the Partners again for a fruitful meeting!

Lizette Utomo will be joining the OARSI 2024 meeting held on April 18-21st in Vienna, Austria. She’s co-organizing the Regenerative Medicine Discussion Group on April 20th at 12.30-14.00 in room Stolz 1. Come and join the discussion!

Michelle Teunissen has a seat in the local organization commitee of the 9th International Conference on Canine and Equine Locomotion (ICEL). Following the conference, the Locomotion in Practice conference will take place. Check it out here! >>

On June 1st 2023, the majority of the team presented their work at the annual meeting of the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology (NL: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Matrix Biologie). It was an interesting and fruitful meeting. See you next year!

Lisanne Laagland and Lizette Utomo will travel to Manchester to join the 2023 TERMIS-EU chapter conference in Manchester, UK! Come see our talks at S25 on Wed 29th March, 12.00-13.30 (Lisanne) and during S55 on Fri March 31st, 11.15 – 12.45 (Lizette). Additionally, Lisanne and Lizette are organizing activities for young investigators as part of…

Michelle Teunissen, Chantal Voskamp, Joost von Hegedus, and Lizette Utomo will travel to Lucca, Italy to join the Gordon Research Conference on Cartilage Biology and Pathology (March 18-24th). We look forward to outstanding and interesting talks!

Marianna Tryfonidou and Deepani Poramba-Liyanage tarvelled to Dallas, Texas to attend the ORS. Marianna will speak on Friday Feb 10th at 6.15PM in Session 2: Enhancing Spine Research through Collaboration. Deepani will have a flash talk on Saturday Feb 11th at 3.30PM in Session 15-NIRA – Mechanisms, Treatment and Therapies.

The iPSpine consortium will finally meet again after 2 years of online meetings in Davos, Switzerland on June 14-15th 2022. The UU-team will afterwards attend the 2022 eCM20: Cartilage and Disc Repair and Regeneration conference also to be held in Davos on 15-18th June 2022.

Marianna Tryfonidou, Frances Bach, Lizette Utomo, Lisanne Laagland, Xiaole Tong, Frank Riemers, Saskia Plomp, and Floor Verdonk attended the Veterinary Science Day on May 12th in Bunnik, the Netherlands. The VSD is a one-day conference organized by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to discuss the research in all departments of the Faculty. Marianna presented her…