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Industry Alliance Office triggers Rodin Therapeutics to launch Clinical Trials in the Netherlands
Rodin Therapeutics and Amsterdam Neuroscience of Amsterdam UMC announced the launch of two clinical trials; the first which has started meanwhile will assess the performance of a new PET ligand that can measure synaptic density in the living brain; the outcome of this first trial should provide insights to guide Rodin’s upcoming Phase 1b trial […]
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Behandeling hoogtevrees mogelijk zonder therapeut dankzij virtual reality
This news item is only available in Dutch. Een volledig zelfgestuurde behandeling met behulp van virtual reality (VR) is effectief voor het verminderen van hoogtevrees. Onderzoekers van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) en Universiteit Twente, onder leiding van VU-onderzoeker Tara Donker, ontwikkelden ZeroPhobia. Een behandeling die wordt geleverd via een smartphone app en een eenvoudige […]
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New public-private AI research lab for medical image analysis
UvA professors Cees Snoek and Marcel Worring are starting a new public-private research lab together with researchers from the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence Ltd. from the United Arab Emirates led by Professor Ling Shao. Within the new AIM lab, the researchers will focus on using artificial intelligence for medical image analysis. The lab will […]
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Entrepreneurship for Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
New elective : Entrepreneurship for Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science In recent years, academic entrepreneurship education has shifted from the exclusive domains of business administration and economics to many other domains as well. In April/May 2019, entrepreneurship is taught for the first time to students of the master Computer Science (joint degree of the Vrije […]
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VU onderzoeker ontvangt €50.000 voor ontwikkelen vriendschapscursus voor eenzame ouderen
VU onderzoeker Tamara Bouwman heeft donderdag 7 maart na een intensieve publiekscampagne voor de Medische Inspirator Prijs de tweede prijs van €50.000 ontvangen voor haar project ‘De online Vriendschapscursus’. Met de prijs gaat Bouwman in samenwerking met cliëntvertegenwoordiger Liesbeth Gaasbeek van de Gouden Dagen de online vriendschapscursus verder ontwikkelen. Uiteindelijk hopen ze de cursus daarmee […]
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IXA next Networking event on March 5
“Grab a boat into your future” with this title IXA, students entrepreneurship association LEAD and Westpoort association, invited students to a network boat tour. Aim of the event was to connect students to entrepreneurs, active in the Amsterdam harbor area Westpoort. A group of around 15 entrepreneurs, members of the Westpoort association and thirty students […]
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Art meets science at VU based Hybrid Forms Lab
Artistic and scientific research combined into an exciting artwork at new VU-based ArtScience labora-tory Hybrid Forms Lab. GAMeC, the prestigious Italian art museum, acquires artwork from artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand; artists are based at the VU physics & astronomy department Hybrid Forms laboratory, part of the Demonstrator Lab. The ArtScience Laboratory of the […]
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Solliciteren? Straks kijkt de robot mee
VU onderzoekt samen met LTP Business Psychologen of kunstmatige intelligentie (KI) gebruikt kan worden om de persoonlijkheid van sollicitanten te beoordelen aan de hand van gedrag en emoties die ze tonen in het gesprek. Reinout de Vries, persoonlijkheidspsycholoog en universitair hoofddocent aan de VU en hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Twente., is door De Telegraaf geïnterviewd. […]
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The climate agreement inspires to join forces
On 29 January professionals from both beta and gamma disciplines gathered at Amsterdam Science Park to share and to learn on techno-economic solutions for the conversion of carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration in agricultural soil, geo-energy supply and the re-use of plastics. The Amsterdam Green Campus brings together professionals from academia, applied science and vocational education […]
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Barlaeus dinner on complexity
On Monday January 28th 2019, Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA office UvA-HvA) and the UvA Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) jointly organised the 6th Barlaeus dinner at the Allard Pierson Museum. The central question of the evening was: what is effective and responsible policy/governance in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world? Complexity is a feature […]
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