The Regenerative Orthopedics group is incredibly proud of Lizette Utomo, Michelle Teunissen, and Ineke Smit for achieving their University Teaching ...

The first 6 weeks of the minor in Veterinary Medicine went by successfully through Through Problem Based Learning (PBL) led by, among others, Niels Blees. ...

iPSpine is moving forward with the six donor-matched cell lines to study how the tissue-origin may affect differentiation into matrix-producing disc cells. ...

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Lizette Utomo will join the TERMIS-EU conference from May 20th-23rd held this year in Freiburg, Germany. Although she’s no longer chair of the ...

Yesterday, April 14th, Nina van Osnabrugge started her master internship in our group and will stay with us for 3 months. Welcome and best of luck on your ...

A huge congratulations to PhD candidate Amir Kamali on his first published manuscript! Excitingly, this study is the first to document the presence of High ...

Lisanne Laagland won the Award for best Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology (NVMB) on April 4th 2025! Her ...

On March 20th and 24th, Lisanne Laagland and Xiaole Tong completed and defended their PhD at Utrecht University! With these two graduations, the iPSpine ...

Congrats to Ann-Sofie Scheike who published her paper on the effects of a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist in equine in vitro models and in an in ...

On March 24th at 16:15, Xiaole will defend this thesis entitled “Advancing stem cell-based technologies for intervertebral disc regeneration. ...

On March 20th at 14:15, Lisanne will defend her PhD thesis entitled “Breaking the Vicious Circle of Nucleus Pulposus Degeneration: Exploring Advanced ...

Saskia and Jaap will start their internship in our group on February 3rd. Saskia is a MSc student in veterinary medicine and will stay for 6 months and ...

On March 19th 2025, Marianna and Lisanne will go to an elementary school for an interactive Q and A session about our research during the annual Meet the ...

Marianna has been invited to speak at the Career and Professional Development Programs sessions at the annual ORS meeting in Phoenix, Arizona held on Feb ...

Niels Blees is looking for clinical trial participants! Is your dog suffering from osteoarthritis? Read more info here (in Dutch) and sign up for the ...

Josette succesfully defended her PhD thesis on November 21st 2024 and is hereby the first UU iPSpine PhD candidate to graduate! Well done and we all wish ...

A massive congrats to Xiaole Tong and the team for this amazing collaborative effort! Read the full paper in Science Advances here >>

A new publication by Irin Kwananocha is out now! Read here >>

Marianna Tryfonidou, Chantal Voskamp, Lisanne Laagland, Xiaole Tong, and Daniele Corraini will travel to Pennsylvania to join the ORS PSRS conference and ...

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 ...

Last week, Marianna Tryfonidou, Lisanne Laagland, Aida Moreira, Chantal Voskamp, and Daniele Corraini, participated at the ISSLS 2024 conference in Milan, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Lizette Utomo will be joining the OARSI 2024 meeting held on April 18-21st in Vienna, Austria. She’s co-organizing the Regenerative Medicine ...

Aida Moreira, Lizette Utomo, and Iris Gill will be joining the annual meeting of the Netherlands Society of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in ...

Aida Moreira is joining the Extracellular Vesicles & Nanoparticle-based Therapeutics Europe 2023 conference in Rotterdam this year. Come say hi!

A new publication by Laagland et al. is online! Congrats Lisanne on your work unveiling signalling pathways of notochordal cell-derived matrix! Read paper ...

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

Michelle Teunissen has a seat in the local organization commitee of the 9th International Conference on Canine and Equine Locomotion (ICEL). Following the ...

Congrats to Josette van Maanen on her paper in Tissue Engineering: part C which describes the evaluation of a combined western and bead-based multiplex ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many team members will join the annual meeting of the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology (NVMB) in Zeist on June 1-2nd. Additionally, Marianna Tryfonidou is ...

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!

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 ...

Marianna Tryfonidou and Lizette Utomo contributed to a bioethics paper by Assen et al. on the concept of responsibility in stem cell research. The paper ...

Michelle Teunissen, Chantal Voskamp, Joost von Hegedus, and Lizette Utomo will travel to Lucca, Italy to join the Gordon Research Conference on Cartilage ...

The consortium meeting of the OA Bio project will be held in Davos, Switzerland on February 16-17th. Marianna Tryfonidou, Joost von Hegedus, and Ann-Sofie ...

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 ...

New publication by Teunissen, et al. in Journal of Orthopaedic Translation on the changes in cartilage physiology after knee joint distraction. Read paper ...

New paper bij Tellegen, et al. in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage on a microsphere formulation for the controlled delivery of celecoxib to combat pain in ...

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) ...

The veterinary science day will be held on May 11th! We will have a nice representation from the group. This year, Lisanne Laagland and Lizette Utomo are ...

The iPSpine consortium meeting will be hosted by UCBM in Rome, Italy on March 9-10th. The UU iPSpine team will travel to Rome to update the consortium and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marianna was awarded with the Mid Term Career Award at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) meeting in Krakow, ...

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 ...

Marianna Tryfonidou, Frances Bach, Lizette Utomo, Lisanne Laagland, Xiaole Tong, Frank Riemers, Saskia Plomp, and Floor Verdonk attended the Veterinary ...