News
December 2024
The recent publication entitled "The calcium-sensing-receptor (CaSR) in adipocytes contributes to sex-differences in the susceptibility to high fat diet induced obesity and atherosclerosis." by Svenja Adam and Sanne Maas has been selected as Paper of the month by the Uniklinik RWTH Aachen.
Please see the interview describing this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtMV5_gn9g
November 2024
Hannah Gourevich and Sanne Maas had the pleasure of joining the TANDEM Mentoring Program opening meeting at RWTH Aachen University. Hannah was accepted to the TANDEMmed program and Sanne to the TANDEMmedPlus program. https://www.medizin.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Medizin/Forschung/Foerderung/~dsjf/Mentoring-Programme/
They are looking forward to the journey ahead and the opportunities this program will bring, both in terms of personal growth and meaningful connections.
November 2024
Sanne Maas was selected to be part of the EAS Young Fellows class of 2024-2025. This November she attended to opening meeting, presented her work and met the order Young Fellows for the first time. It was a great meeting in the sunny Vienna. It was a pleasure to meet everybody and she is looking forward to the upcoming two years.
8 November 2024
On November 8, the outreach team of CRC1382, including Melissa Corcini Berndt, had its first stand (“Bacteria, Bile and Beyound”) at the 20th RWTH Science Night! This event has been attracting thousands of visitors every year since 2003, with a unique way of presenting science to the public in the late hours of the night.
The team introduced visitors of all ages to the gut-liver axis through hands-on activities and informal exchanges. Why do we see so many bacteria in stool when we look at it under a microscope? How do scientists isolate bacteria to work on? How can stool colours reflect health issues, including problems with the gut or liver? Why do we study these two organs together? How do these organs look like? What does it mean to be in a CRC? And many other questions were discussed with the visitors who crowded the stand from 18:00 to midnight. PhD students from the consortium also presented their own research in more details to curious kids, students, parents, scientist and everyone interested. All in all, the event was a great success and brought the topics of the CRC research closer to the public. (source: https://www.crc1382.org/7932/)
Oktober 2024
In October Melissa Corcini Berndt and Sanne Maas joined for the first time the annual CRC1382 retreat. The meeting took place in the Abbey Steinfeld, the retreat offered young scientists and principal investigators (PIs) the chance to either establish or deepen their collaborations, network, and exchange project ideas over the course of two days. This year, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers were given an expanded platform. The PhD students each presented a one-minute teaser to introduce their poster presentations, showcasing their work in a dynamic format.
The tradition of team-building activities on the first day was upheld with a unique twist, namely speed dating. Under the theme of “research and career,” PhD students and postdoctoral researchers engaged in fast-paced one-on-one sessions with the PIs to discuss their experiences and career paths.
On the second day, the “CRC1382 Public Outreach” task force presented a range of initiatives, including their involvement in Pint of Science 2024, plans for an interactive booth at Science Night, and the launch of a LinkedIn profile to enhance visibility and engagement. These achievements were the result of dedicated efforts from PI Marianne Grognot, postdoctoral researchers, and PhD students, including Melissa.
Melissa and Sanne both attended the retreat and made significant contributions. Sanne presented a first update on the data generated by Melissa for the Rising Star project, which she was recently awarded. Melissa gave an excellent poster pitch and a subsequent detailed poster presentation, showcasing her research with enthusiasm. Looking ahead, we are already excited for the annual retreat in 2025!
(Source: https://www.crc1382.org/7906/)
13 September 2024
On September 13th, Linsey Peters successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled: "MicroRNA-26b plays a major regulatory role in cardiometabolic diseases". Many congrats with this new title!
And special thanks to all opposition members (Leon de Windt, Mathias Hornef, Holger Winkels, Ljubica Matic, Stephane Potteaux, and Niels Cremers, PhD) for the great discussions!
1-3 July 2024
It was great to present and chair a session at the Printemps de la Cardiologie in Lille earlier this month! Thank you very much for the invitation!
Great to catch up with fellow Scientists of Tomorrow nucleus members from the European Society of Cardiology.
June 2024
2 grants in one month!! Proud to announce that Sanne Maas receive funding from the IZKF START grant as well as the RWTH ERS Start-Up grant to study the role of kinases in atherosclerosis!
26-29 May 2024
Looking back at a really great European Atherosclerosis Society meeting in Lyon last month.
Not only great science, but also very nice to meet all Young Fellows and other colleagues in the field again! It was inspiring and most of all also a lot of fun!
Furthermore, my team really delivered an excellent performance!!
A great oral presentation by Rosanna Huchzermeier and excellent SaaG presentations by Andrea Bonnin Marquez and Sanne Maas.
On top of all this, Sanne Maas was acknowledged as Finalist of the EAS early career grant!
Needless to say that I am a very proud mentor and congrats to the whole team!!
Looking forward to Glasgow 2025!
12-14 April 2024
We were happy to join the FCVB meeting this year and present our work as oral presentation and moderated poster.
Looking back to some interesting days filled with good conversations and networking!
1 April 2024
Great news! Dr. Sanne Maas was selected for the rising star initiative of the CRC1382.
With this funding she was able to hire her first PhD student!
She is looking forward to collaborating within the Gut-Liver axis CRC in Aachen (https://www.crc1382.org/.)
28 September 2023
Our SFB/TRR219 organized an educational science day for 60 high-school scholars to teach them more about cardiorenal disease, by focussing on the interactions between the kidney and the heart.
The day started with an interactive lecture to introduce the topic, followed by four different workshops. Two workshops focussed on basic science in which scholars learned more about microscopy and organs, and in which they were thought how to use a pipette. Additionally, in two clinical workshops, the scholars learned more about Echocardiography of the heart and Electrocardiograms.
The day was concluded with a joint lunch and the exposition of large impressive models of the heart, kidney and vessels.
All in all, a very successful day in which our SFB/TRR219 could share our passion for cardiorenal research with the future generation.
07-08 September 2023
Very successful annual meeting of the British Atherosclerosis Society (BAS) in Cambridge, where Dr. Sanne Maas received an Early Career Investigator Award for highest ranked abstract!!
Furthermore, I was invited to chair the Young-Community session enabling me to promote the Scientists of Tomorrow from the ESC.
07 August 2023
Happy to announce that I have completed my Habilitation and can call myself "Privat-Dozent" at the RWTH Aachen University!
Many thanks to all collaborators and my mentors over the last years, and especially my group members that surprised me with a very nice hat!!
15 June 2023
Again a great group performance at a conference! This time at the DAS (Dutch Atherosclerosis Society) in Amersfoort. A very nice oral presentation by Leonida Rakateli and great poster presentation by Andrea Bonnin-Marquez.
21-24 May 2023
Very proud on our group performance on the EAS conference this year in Mannheim. Oral presentations by Sanne Maas, Svenja Adam and myself, and a Science-at-a-glance presentation by Andrea Bonnin-Marquez. Great performances by everyone!!
This together with the receipt of EAS fellowship finalist prize, chairing of a workshop and meeting-up with all the EAS Young-Fellows resulted in a great conference experience.
6 December 2022
I am very honoured to be selected for the Young Fellows Programme of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS). We have just had our first on-site meeting in Vienna where we discussed our projects and about science in general.
8 November 2022
We were delighted to visit the first symposium of the Corona-Stiftung. Many grant laureates from the past years were present and we had very fruitfull discussions about our projects. Hereby we would like to thank the Corona-Stiftung again for their support of our work and organizing this interesting symposium!
20 October 2022
We are proud to announce the opening of the ´Aachen-Maastricht Institute for CardioRenal Disease´ (AMICARE). See Brochure for more information.