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Epidemiologist Sophie Bots has been awarded a Dekker grant of 252 thousand euros by the Dutch Heart Foundation (Hartstichting). Over the next three years, she will investigate whether heart failure medicines are equally effective and safe…

Glycoscientist Robert de Vries and his research associates have received a €150,000 Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council (ERC). With this funding, De Vries and his colleagues will explore the feasibility of developing…

Three Utrecht humanities scholars receive funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the PhDs in the Humanities programme. This programme offers talented researchers a paid PhD position with the aim of boosting the recruitment…

Water scarcity will intensify with climate and socioeconomic change, disproportionately impacting populations located in the Global South. So concludes a new Utrecht University article published in Nature Climate Change on 23 May 2024,…

Climate change can accelerate due to feedback mechanisms: complex phenomena caused by climate change which in turn can further boost climate change. One example of this is the additional CO2 emission from thawing permafrost. Research into…

The DRIVE-RM consortium, led by Professor of Experimental Nephrology Marianne Verhaar from UMC Utrecht, has been awarded €37.5 million under the prestigious NWO SUMMIT program. The SUMMIT grant recognizes world-class collaborations, while…

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has awarded a Pathfinder Grant of about 3 million euros to the European consortium Quondensate. The consortium’s research aims to result in a prototypical quantum computer which will overcome the…

The Utrecht University Hall, including the inner garden, courtyard, Faculty Club and the Pandhof (excluding the garden part), needs to be renovated to the requirements of the present time in terms of sustainability, accessibility and…

The upper Indus basin, home to the Himalaya, Hindukush and Karakoram mountain ranges, feeds major rivers that flow through India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China. Hydropower is booming in the upper Indus – its countries propose an over…

In a warmer climate, summers warm much faster than winters in northwestern Europe. That is the conclusion of research into fossil shells by an international team of earth scientists. With this knowledge we can better map the consequences of…