This month, Adrià Túnez and Jana Hirzinger interview Melanie de Wit, researcher at the Amsterdam UMC.  Melanie successfully defended her thesis on June 29th! You are known for your contributions in au...

De KNAW heeft zestien nieuwe leden gekozen. Vandaag presenteren we met trots de zestien nieuwe wetenschappers die toetreden tot de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Alle nieuwe leden...

Ready to unravel the complex interplay between genes and environment shaping health and society? Join our interdisciplinary team analyzing large-scale genomic data across Europe. Are you eager to contribute to groundbreaking research on health and social inequalities?

The next GENE Amsterdam research meeting will take place online on the 5th of March at 13:00. Three early career researchers will shortly present ongoing work with preliminary results, after which […]

This month, Adrià Túnez and Jana Hirzinger interview Sean Jurgens, researcher at the Amsterdam UMC.  What sparked your interest in studying genetic risk factors underlying cardiovascular diseases? Whi...

In this very first episode of Born and Raised, hosts Rafael and Aysu visit behavior geneticist Abdel Abdellaoui in his office at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. They talk about the nature of ...

Do you want to develop cutting-edge genetic prediction methods to improve early detection of serious mental illness? Join our ERC-funded PhD project and work with large-scale genetic data in an international research team.

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Explore how advances in genetic research intersect with questions of social impact and responsibility and examine the promises and challenges of genetics.

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The next GENE Amsterdam research meeting will take place online on the 2nd of October at 13:00 (online). Anaïs Thijssen will present a talk titled “Visualising the Genetic Heterogeneity of […]

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Wouter Peyrot, Assistant Professor of Statistical Genetics at Amsterdam UMC, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant worth €1.5 million for his research project PersonalRiskProfile. This ambitious project aims to develop advanced genetic methods to identify individuals at increased risk of serious mental illness (SMI).

Dear all,   The next GENE Amsterdam research meeting will be a hybrid meeting on Thursday, September 4th at 13:00 at the AMC. Nikki Hubers will give a talk covering […]

NWO heeft aan 200 veelbelovende onderzoekers uit de volle breedte van de wetenschap Veni-financiering van maximaal 320.000 euro toegewezen. De laureaten kunnen daarmee in de komende drie jaar hun eigen onderzoeksideeën verder ontwikkelen.

This month, Anaïs Thijssen and Jana Hirzinger interview Meike Bartels, professor at the department of Biological Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Most research focuses on why people get...

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Purpose Natural dizygotic twinning (DZT) results from hyper-ovulation and is an indicator of female fertility. However, some traits linked to DZ twinning are also associated with infertility. We exami...

The next GENE Amsterdam research meeting will take place online on Thursday, June 5th at 13:00. Beate St Pourcain and Ellen Verhoef will present on “Modelling Heterogeneity in Twin Studies […]

Social determinants of health are social factors that affect health and survival. Two of the most powerful social determinants are socioeconomic status (SES) and race/ethnicity; people with lower SES ...

The next GENE Amsterdam research meeting will be on Thursday, May 1st @13.00 on Teams . Prof Mieke van Haelst will present a talk titled “Emma Center for Personalized Medicine: Accelerating therapy de...

The department of Biological Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit has a vacancy for a PhD-student within the ambitious Stress in Action project. The experience of stress is an inherent aspect of daily...

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Please find below information on the third annual “Genes and SEM” online workshop co-organised by Beate St Pourcain (MPI for Psycholinguistics), Brad Verhulst (Texas A&M University) and Conor Dolan (V...