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Stairway to Impact Award for the fight against serious Strep A infections Amsterdam UMC's microbiologist Nina van Sorge has been indispensable in the development of a vaccine against Strep A infections, which range from mild throat infections to life-threatening conditions such as blood poisoning and puerperal fever. Worldwide, these infections cause half a million deaths per year, mainly in developing countries. With the Stairway to Impact Award from NWO, Van Sorge hopes to attract more attention to the fight against Strep A infections. She will invest the prize money in monitoring the pathogenic bacteria.
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AI system helps recognize early stage of oesophageal cancer A new AI system can help endoscopists recognize oesophageal cancer early, according to a study by Amsterdam UMC and Eindhoven University of Technology. "The sooner you recognize oesophageal cancer, the better the outcome for the patient," says Jacques Bergman, professor of Endoscopy at Amsterdam UMC. "We are therefore very happy with this help from artificial intelligence."
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Mapping the landscape: Amsterdam UMC receives millions to lead European research into obesity Obesity is a growing health problem that disproportionately affects people and communities with a low socio-economic position in Europe. Thanks to a Horizon grant worth more than 10 million euros, Jeroen Lakerveld, epidemiologist at Amsterdam UMC, is now set to lead a European consortium in better identifying the causes of obesity and designing guidelines to tackle the problem.
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AI as a Care Co-Pilot It takes a village to raise a child and a whole team to treat a patient and, in the view of Folkert Asselbergs, Professor of Precision Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, adding AI to that team is a logical next step. However, in whose hands AI comes remains to be seen. Asselbergs spoke yesterday at an Amsterdam UMC symposium, together with John Halamka, President of the Mayo Clinic Platform and, together, their answer might be both: in the hands of patients and in the hands of medical professionals.
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How more efficient genomic surveillancing could benefit the whole planet Your every move being tracked by a series of cameras as you walk through the city. A sign, for George Orwell, of the ultimate dystopia. But surveillance can have massive benefits for public health, especially when you track genes. Yesterday, at the annual Joep Lange symposium, Simon de Jong, PhD candidate at Amsterdam UMC presented his research on how more efficient genomic surveillance could benefit the whole planet.
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A view from inside the human: Human Organ Atlas Hub The Human Organ Atlas Hub (HOAHub) is a project that produces high-resolution images of human organs, using the particle accelerator based in Grenoble. Bernadette de Bakker is a doctor and Imaging specialist at Amsterdam UMC, who plays an important role at the HOAHub, in the video below she explains why this research is so important.
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Scientific oversight as a requirement for responsible AI Interdisciplinary experts from Amsterdam UMC, and the University of Amsterdam, two institutions within the Amsterdam AI ecosystem, have published their 'living guidelines' for responsible use of generative AI today in Nature.
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Smart brain-wave cap recognizes stroke before the patient reaches the hospital A special brain-wave cap can diagnose stroke in the ambulance, allowing the patient to receive appropriate treatment faster. Jonathan Coutinho, neurologist at Amsterdam UMC, is one of the inventors the swimming cap: "Our research shows that the brain-wave cap can recognize patients with large ischemic stroke with great accuracy. This is very good news, because the cap can ultimately save lives by routing these patients directly to the right hospital." The research is published today in Neurology.
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Researching Harmful Noise in the Workplace Factory workers, teachers, police officers and pilots all have to deal with noisy work environments. These environments means that they have to make extra effort to properly understand what is being said. But how do you measure whether that effort costs them so much that it leads to stress and fatigue, or to absenteeism due to illness or even to an unsafe environment? Researchers Adriana Zekveld and Sophia Kramer from Amsterdam UMC will investigate this.
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Anatomsiche Les 2023: A molecular anatomy lesson 391 years ago, in the centre of Amsterdam, Nicolaes Tulp presented an arm's worth of tendons to his audience. One of which was Rembrandt van Rijn. What followed was one of the Dutch artist's masterpieces, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Fast forward to November 2023, when Professor Iain McInnes will present his own arm's worth of tendons and deliver Amsterdam UMC's 30th Anatomy Lesson.
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