NEWS

DORIAN HAS GRADUATED!
September 2020
On 28th of September Dorian Luijkx has received his Master of Science diploma. Magdalena has written the laudatory speech for this occasion, which was read by Dorian's study coordinator. Congratulations Dorian! Good luck with your PhD endeavour in Maastricht!

OUR NEW PAPER PUBLISHED
April 2020
Our review discussing the challenges and opportunities in use of MSC-EVs as a therapeutic in tissue repair is out! Congratulations to Suzy, who put in a lot of work to make it happen!

WELCOME BAHAR!
November 2019
Bahar joined the lab to work on the role of MSC and their secretome in the repair of intestinal tissue.

GRANT AWARDED
July 2019
Magdalena received a grant from KIKA Foundation to study the role of MSC and their secretome in the repair of intestinal tissue.
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June 2019
Magdalena visited the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona, Italy, to give a seminar on our recent finding regarding the role of MSC and their secretome in tissue repair.

WELCOME SUZY!
April 2019

VISIT PROF. EDIT BUZAS
January 2019
Professor Edit Buzas from Semmelweis University, Budapest has visited the lab. She gave an overview of her work on the extracellular vesicles within the regenerative medicine seminar series. Prof. Buzas also gave an interactive masterclass on recent developments in EV field.
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VISIT IN BELGRADE
December 2018
Magdalena has visited Belgrade to present our recent data on role of MSC-EV in cartilage regeneration on the Fifth Symposium of regenerative medicine “Stem cells – a vision beyond borders”, Belgrade, Serbia.

GRANT AWARDED
November 2018
Magdalena was awarded grant from Dutch Arthritis Foundation to study the molecular mechanism of how MSC-EVs regulate cartilage regeneration.

VISIT DR. MICHIEL PEGTEL
October 2018
Dr. Michiel Pegtel visits the lab to give an overview of the recent developments of his research on extracellular vesicles. It has been a very well received seminar and fruitful discussion. We look forward to future collaboration.

RALUCA TUTUIANU VISITED THE LAB
August 2018
Raluca Tutuianu from the Laboratory of Mesenchymal Stromal Progenitor Cells Therapy at "Nicolae Simionescu" Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology in Bucharest visited the lab to learn everything about MSC-derived EVs. We look forward to future collaboration.

GRANT AWARDED
June 2018
Magdalena was awarded K.F. Hein Fonds grant for the work aiming to understand the communication between MSC and injured intestinal epithelium.

OUR NEW PAPER PUBLISHED
January 2018
Our paper on the role of MSC-EVs in cartilage regeneration is published in Theranostics.

GRANT AWARDED
July 2017
Magdalena in collaboration with Dr. Lucienne Vonk from Department of Orthopaedics was awarded Translationeel Adult Stamcelonderzoek (TAS) Game changer grant from ZonMW for continuation of the work on the role of MSC-EVs in cartilage regeneration.