Washington Post publishes article featuring the clinical work of the SNF center for precision psychiatry
A Washington Post reporter visited the new center for precision psychiatry and mental health at Columbia University. The article covers ...
Columbia University Launches Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health with $75 Million Grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
Columbia University today announced the establishment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Me...
Femke de Vrij received a H2020 Pathfinder Open grant for the 3D-BrAIn project
3D-BrAIn is an EU-funded research project with partners in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. The project is aimed at developing personaliz...
María Pascual García obtains her PhD degree
Maria has succesfully defended her thesis titled "Unveiling Myelination Mechanisms in Schizophrenia". Summary: The brain is the mo...
Rubicon grant to study xenotransplantation of human neurons
Circuit-level mechanisms of psychiatric disorders remain largely unknown. Investigation of human neurons has been hampered by an inabili...
Femke de Vrij featured in “Hart van Rotterdam”
Femke de Vrij was featured in an online mini-series about the Erasmus Medical Center, watch the full episode here....
Bas Lendemeijer succesfully defends his PhD thesis
Bas Lendemeijer has succesfully defended his thesis titled "Leveraging human induced pluripotent stem cells for modeling brain diseases"...
Creat2Solve grant awarded to create 3D MICroBrains
Femke de Vrij and Steven Kushner have been awarded a grant to standardize human brain cell cultures for testing therapeutic strategies i...
ZonMW grant for PSIDER consortium
ZonMw has awarded a PSIDER grant to a consortium led by Steven Kushner and Ype Elgersma from Erasmus MC. The grant is entitled ‘Towar...
Mini-Organs on Chips (Mini-organen op chips), Foundation for Biosciences and Society
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Femke de Vrij promoted to UHD (Universitair Hoofddocent)
Steven Kushner appointed at Columbia University
Steven Kushner appointed as Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute
Femke de Vrij awarded grant from Netherlands Scientific Organization
Femke de Vrij was awarded a grant from Netherlands Scientific Organization: MKMD Initiative – Create2Solve Programme, An animal-free h...
Steven Kushner in “Lof der geneeskunst” [in praise of medical sciences] together with Witte Hoogendijk and Liesbeth van Rossum
Shashini Munshi Ph.D. thesis defence
Shashini Munshi succesfully defended her Ph.D. thesis
For the first time, human brains are grown that generate brain waves
Voor het eerst menselijke hersenen gekweekt die hersengolven afgeven
Luisa Fassi accepted to the University of Oxford
Luisa Fassi accepted to the University of Oxford for the MSc programme in Psychology
Jeffrey Stedehouder receives his Ph.D.
Jeffrey Stedehouder receives his Ph.D. cum laude
Steven appointed as International Advisory Board Member
Steven appointed as International Advisory Board Member, Bioethics and Law Initiative, Tel Aviv University https://www.bioethics.center/...
Femke granted the Erasmus MC Human Disease Modeling Award
Femke granted the Erasmus MC Human Disease Modeling Award for her project entitled “Human iPSC models of rare familial depression”...
Steven appointed President of the Dutch Society for Neuroscience
Steven appointed President of the Dutch Society for Neuroscience http://neurofederatie.nl/...
Jeffrey accepted a post-doctoral position
Jeffrey accepted a post-doctoral postion in the laboratory of Michael Halassa at the McGovern Institute at MIT http://halassalab.mit.edu...
Christian awarded a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Christian awarded a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Sara van Dam Project Grant for his project in collaboration wi...
Bonsai brains in a dish
NRC Handelsblad – Bonsai brains in a dish [Bonsaihersens in een lab-schaaltje] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/09/28/bonsaibreintjes-a1...
Jeffrey hosts Science Café
Jeffrey hosts Science Café at the 2018 FENS Forum in Berlin https://forum2018.fens.org/Documents/Poster_All%20locations%20_talks_speake...
Ideal for testing new treatments
de Volkskrant – Ideal for testing new treatments, but also ethically loaded: scientists grow piece of human brain in head of mouse [...
Christian’s 2017 American Journal
Christian’s 2017 American Journal of Psychiatry paper used as the basis for an APA Continuing Medical Education course https://ajp.psy...
After French drug trial tragedy
Science Magazine – After French drug trial tragedy, European Union issues new rules to protect study volunteers http://www.sciencemag....
Steven hosts Wetenschapscafé
Steven hosts Wetenschapscafé (Science café) in Rotterdam (26 June 2017) Growing the human brain in a petri dish http://www.wetensch...
Mirena IUD: Mirena: Women
"mistreated" by hormones and gynecology? (TV5Monde, 22 June 2017) [Stérilet Mirena : les femmes "maltraitées" par les hormones et la g...
Science Magazine
New clues to why a French drug trial went horribly wrong http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/why-french-drug-trial-may-have-gone-horr...
Vampire in the belly
Der Spiegel – Vampire in the belly (Vampir im Bauch) https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/23/151473812/ DER SPIEGEL_2017_23 - LNG-IU...
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Studio Erasmus: Psychiatry in film https://www.youtube.com/embed/15ecirJHQ2w...
Steven appointed
Steven appointed as a 2016 FENS Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar https://fenskavlinetwork.org/...
A developing brain cell
de Volkskrant – A developing brain cell: Nature does it easily [Een hersencel kweken: de natuur draait er geen hand voor om https:/...
Organs-on-a-chip
de Volkskrant – Organs-on-a-chip: a medical revolution in the making [Cyberorganen: een medische revolutie in wording] https://ww...
The Next Generation of Neuropharmaceutical Drugs
The Next Generation of Neuropharmaceutical Drugs: NeuroBasic PharmaPhenomics, “Schizophrenia Treatment Begins with Understanding” ht...
Beta Break
Neurobiology & Psychiatry - Lost in Translation? https://www.youtube.com/embed/u8cSBZIKby8...