We have three new internship positions available, all within the NC-CHOICE project. Check them out here!

We have a new internship position available for this semester. Read the full description here, or click here for an overview of all available internships.

Are you enrolled at the GSLS and are looking for an Master research internship? We have open positions! See here >>

On June 6th, the Regenerative Orthopedics group joined the annual Veterinary Science Day, a symposium where the entire Veterinary Medicine faculty of Utrecht University comes together and present their research. Chantal Voskamp and Meng-Jou (Astrid) Hsu were selected for a poster pitch. Also, master students, Willemijn van der Heijden and Mario Montelongo Gallegos presented their…

Last week, Marianna Tryfonidou, Lisanne Laagland, Aida Moreira, Chantal Voskamp, and Daniele Corraini, participated at the ISSLS 2024 conference in Milan, Italy. It was a great meeting with lots of fruitful discussions and insights!

On May 22nd-24th we had our final iPSpine consortium meeting. It was a great time to catch up with everyone and to reflect on the journey of iPSpine. WP leaders gave a short overview of the work packages, while the “Topic talks” reflected the amazing collaborative works that were produced in the last 5.5 years….

On March 20th, Marianna and Chantal contributed to the annual Meet the Professor event and visited a primary school in Utrecht to talk about the research line on low back pain. They even used crafts to explain IVD degeneration! See the reel on Instagram here >>

On April 16th, lower back pain patients, researchers and medical professionals came together to address these topics and to learn more about the recent advances of the iPSpine project. Read more >>

Are you looking for an exciting MSc internship in regenerative medicine? We have a position available focussing on ex vivo models for musculoskeletal joint diseases. Click here for more information >>

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!

Congrats to MSc student Corinde (right), who won the Best Poster Award at the Veterinary Science Day 2023. Corinde presented her work on differentiation of iPSCs towards notochordal-like cells which is part of the iPSpine project.

Congrats to Lisanne, who won the 2nd prize for Best Oral Presentation Award at the TERMIS-EU 2023 conference held in Manchester, UK! Well done!

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.

After more than 10 years of working in our research group, we are saying goodbye to Frances Bach. Frances is known to be the walking encyclopedia on IVD(D) and we had amazing years together! We will miss you a lot and wish you you all the luck and happiness with your new adventure as Medical…

Today at the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology (NVMB), Michelle Teunissen was awarded the 2022 Bertus Kemp prize for Best Doctoral Thesis. Congrats Michelle!

A new publication by Teunissen, et al. published in Stem Cells Research & Therapy provides insights in the differentiation capacity of mesenchymal progrenitor cells derived from canine OA synovial membrane. Congrats to Michelle for this wonderful publication! Read the full paper here >>

New paper by Laagland et al in JOR Spine shows the beneficiary effects of hyperosmolarity on in vitro expansion of canine NP cells. Congrats to Lisanne for this wonderful publication! Read the paper >>

We are recruiting a PhD candidate and postdoctoral researcher! Closing date: Aug 25th 2022.

Frances is the winner of the 2022 ISSLS Research Grant Award sponsored by Taisho Toyama Pharmaceuticals. She will receive a 20 000 USD award to investigate the effect of notochordal extracellular vesicles on human and bovine nucleus pulpous explants. Congrats, Frances!

Marianna was awarded with the Mid Term Career Award at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) meeting in Krakow, Poland held on June 28th-July 1st 2022. The acknowledges an individual, who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine research, during the midterm of their career with…

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…