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  • March 22, 2023

    Gender and age define success of biodegradable implants

    Bente de Kort defended her thesis at the Department of Biomedical Engineering on March 16th.

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    March 16, 2023

    A new rapid ‘glow-in-the-dark’ test for infectious diseases

    Harm van der Veer and Maarten Merkx amongst others have developed a new bioluminescence-based sensor that can detect tiny amounts of viral…

  • March 14, 2023

    Model with living bone cells to study osteoporosis

    Stefan Remmers defended his thesis at the Department of Biomedical Engineering on March 14th.

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    March 9, 2023

    How do cells spread word upon a viral infection?

    For her cum laude PhD research, Laura Van Eyndhoven explored how so-called first responder cells inform immune cells about a viral infection…

  • February 23, 2023

    Xeltis lands €32 million investment to develop restorative cardiovascular devices

    These new and substantial investments enable the Eindhoven-based start-up to increase the development of their extraordinary cardiovascular…

  • February 23, 2023

    Vici grant to help Patricia Dankers turn dreams into reality

    Patricia Dankers has been awarded the grant worth 1.5 million euros to realize her dream of making a synthetic extracellular matrix that…

  • February 17, 2023

    Reconstructing living tissue organization

    Cas van der Putten defended his thesis at the department of Biomedical Engineering on February 16th.

  • The official logo of the Axel and Boris Fund. The design was inspired by photos of the two students and created by Donna Verhaart.
    February 8, 2023

    Boris and Axel Fund helps students with innovative projects

    The fund supports projects on sustainability, sports and inclusiveness.

  • January 23, 2023

    Intervening in the body’s plumbing system: engineering kidney tubes

    Marjan Hagelaars defended her PhD thesis at the department of Biomedical Engineering on January 20th.

  • January 16, 2023

    Prof. Silvia Lenaerts of University of Antwerp becomes new TU/e rector

    Lenaerts will become the first female rector magnificus of TU/e.

  • From left to right: Robert-Jan Smits, Nicole Ummelen and Frank Baaijens
    January 10, 2023

    All the best for 2023!

    Read the New Year's message of the TU/e board here.

  • December 27, 2022

    Roy van der Meel: I'm a kind of postie who delivers medicines

    In part two of our year-end series, we talk with Roy van der Meel about his quest to find clever ways to deliver drugs into the body.