Month: February 2025

On February 17-18, B-specific representatives Amanda Foks and Bram Slütter, participated in the first annual EIC Pathfinder Cardiogenomics Portfolio meeting, organized by the EIC Pathfinder team in Brussels. It was very exciting to meet the EIC Pathfinder Program Manager Orsolya Symmons, Program Officers Iliana Kostova and Ioannis Amarantos, and the other 6 Cardiogenomics consortia to discuss future collaborations and Portfolio actions. Stay tuned, next year the B-specific team will organize this annual meeting in Leiden!

As part of the BioPharmaceutical Sciences student society ‘Parents’ day’ on Saturday the 22^nd of February, the Leiden team provided multiple labtours for approximately 120 parents and students. Amanda Foks together with her PhD student Roy Snijckers, explained their cardiovascular research projects and organized a walking tour through the cell culture and labspaces. Everyone was particularly impressed by the human atherosclerotic plaque specimens the Leiden team processes with help from their clinical collaborators!