ESR Claudio Intini enjoying The Netherlands
ESR 5 Claudio Intini, currently ESR at SurgaColl (Ireland), performed a long secondment period at EMC (The Netherlands). He had the oppotunity to fully experience all aspects of a new contry. Here his short story: [...]
Symposium on CarBon at EORS 2019
The European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS) will have its annual conference in Maastricht from October 3 until October 5, 2019. On October 3 Dr. Eric Farrell (EMC), CarBon PI, will lead a symposium (symposium n. [...]
CarBon consortium members meet in Frankfurt
On July 3 and 4, 2019 CarBon PIs and ESRs met in the sunny Frankfurt for two intense days or meeting, hosted by Goethe University of Franfurt - represented by PI Prof. Frank Zaucke. All [...]
Enrique and Kathrin working together in Frankfurt
Last April ESR 6 Enrique Andres Sastre went for a week to Frankfurt, hosted by the Dr. Rolf Schwiete Research Unit for Osteoarthritis, Orthopaedic University Hospital Friedrichsheim, Frankfurt, Germany. He worked with Kathrin Maly [...]
Enrique receives the Pauline van Wachum Award at the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology Annual Meeting
On May 17, 2019 CarBon ESR 6 Enrique Andres Sastre received the Pauline van Wachum Award at the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology Annual Meeting. The title of the his presentation was "Thrombospondins -4 and [...]
Raphaelle from Leuven to Cologne
ESR 10 Raphaelle Lesage works at KULeuven and she recently did a secondment at UKK in Cologne. Here below she tells us about this experience, inside and ouside the lab. The purpose of this short [...]
CarBon symposium at EORS2019
Gerjo van Osch and Eric Farrell (Erasmus MC) are organizing a CarBon symposium at the EORS (European Orthopaedic Research Society) meeting that will be held in Maastricht, NL from 2-5 October (https://eors2019.org/). For the symposium [...]
Soraia spreads science (and Portuguese) among kids
On behalf of Native Scientist (https://www.nativescientist.com/), Soraia Silva (ESR 9) was part of an outreach activity last 25th of March at Walthamstow School for Girls, London. A group of five scientists from different fields planned [...]
CarBon midterm meeting in Genova, Italy – time to show our first results!
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA On November 27 and 28, 2018 USMI hosted the important CarBon midterm consortium meeting in Genova, Italy. On the first day of the meeting the EU project officer Julien Giordani [...]
PhD positions available at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, CarBon partner organization, is delighted to announce the launch of our Strategic Academic Recruitment (StAR) International PhD Programme, now recruiting 5 prestigious fully funded PhD scholarships. This programme aims [...]
3 questions to… dr. Linda Kock, Head of Research at LifeTe and CarBon PI
To get to know our PIs better, they are invited to answer three at least three questions about CarBon, research in general and/or themselves. We start with Linda Kock, Head of Research at LifeTec and recently nominated Adjunct [...]
CarBon consortium meets in Dublin
On March 28 and 29, 2018 all CarBon ESRs and PIs met in Dublin for the second 2 day consortium meeting, hosted by the Trinity Biomedical Science Institute of Trinity College Dublin. ESRs were immediately involved in a [...]
ESR 6 Enrique Andres Sastre wins the award for the best poster at the 22nd Molecular Medicine Day
CarBon ESR 6 Enrique Andres Sastre (EMC) won an award of 500 Euro for the best poster at the 22nd Molecular Medicine Day (MolMed Day). The poster was about "the important role that Collagen type [...]
ESR 7 Farhad Chariyev Prinz awared at BinIrl
We are glad to announce that our CarBon ESR 7 Farhad Chariyev Prinz recently won a small award at the conference Bioengineering in Ireland (https://binirl.com) Farhad has been awarded "Best Mechanobiology Track Oral Presentation Early Researcher Category". [...]
Astrid Novicky (ESR 14) and Soraia Silva (ESR 9) involving students in science
On behalf of The Bloomsbury Centre for Skeletal Research (https://bloomsbury-skeletal-research.org/), Astrid Novicky (ESR 14) and Soraia Silva (ESR 9) were part of the outreach activity "What are bones made of?". Last 14th of June, 2017 this [...]
ESR 6 Enrique Andres Sastre from EMC to UKK for an intense secondment
Secondment at UKK – E. Andres Sastre As part of my project, I performed a short stay with our CarBon partner at the University of Cologne (UKK) from the 24th to the 28th of April, [...]
Erasmus MC PI and CarBon project coordinator Gerjo van Osch in Hong Kong for a secondment!
Prof. dr. Gerjo van Osch left last November for a challenging international experience. She is (temporarily) back to pipets and samples and she loves it. Here she tells us more about it: I am doing a [...]
ESR Cansu Gorgun and her secondment experience at Erasmus MC
Cansu is Turkish and she is working as CarBon Early Stage Resercher in Italy. During the following years several secondment experiences will bring her around Europe. Here below you can read her report on the [...]
ESR8 Edoardo Andreini, one of the LifeTec Group promising rookies
LifeTecGroup, one of the CarBon partners, has recently dedicated a page to Edoardo, including him in the series of Promising Rookies. Check it out here!
First CarBon consortium meeting in Leuven, Belgium
CarBon ESRs in Leuven On October 17 and 18, 2017 the CarBon consortium members met in Leuven in occasion of the first consortium meeting, hosted by KU Leuven PIs Christa Maes and Liesbet Geris. During [...]
New CarBon project manager
In August, Francesca Moretto started at Erasmus MC as CarBon project manager. She is replacing Marloes de Vries, who is transferring to another department of Erasmus MC.
8 CarBon ESRs started their projects
In February and March, the first CarBon ESRs started their projects: Yannick Nossin and Enrique Andres Sastre started at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, Farhad Chariyev-Prinz started his appointment at TCD in Dublin, Soraia Silva and [...]
CarBon kick off meeting
The first CarBon consortium meeting took place in Rotterdam on March 13 & 14.