Wouter Peyrot awarded ERC Starting Grant for personalized genetic risk profiles in psychiatryWouter 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).
ZonMw Off Road funding to study the formation of Lewy Bodies in Parkinson’s disease Amsterdam Neuroscience researcher Tim Moors, a senior postdoc researcher at the Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences at Amsterdam UMC, has been awarded a ZonMw Off Road grant. The new cell models and proof-of-concept studies developed within this project represent an important step toward establishing a new research line at the interface of alpha-synuclein’s normal biology and its early deregulation in Parkinson’s disease.
First consultation hours for patients with smoldering Multiple Sclerosis Amsterdam UMC is launching unique consultation hours for patients with ‘smoldering MS’. This form of Multiple Sclerosis involves gradual disease progression even without active inflammation in the brain. During the special consultation hour, these patients will receive tailored treatment advice. The initiative is partly based on research into age and MS by neurologist Eva Strijbis and radiologist Frederik Barkhof of Amsterdam UMC, recently published in Nature Reviews Neurology.
