During the #WeekendvandeWetenschap on the 4th of October, MERLN opened its lab doors to everyone who curious about science. Visitors could experiment with measuring PH values, 3D printing, and DNA isolation. Many thanks to the team!

Looking back at an amazing #MERLN PhD Day 2025! Many thanks to the organizing committee for composing such a high-quality program with so many talented researchers. Thank you #SebastienCallens and #ElenaDellaBella for the inspiring presentations. We are looking forward to the next!

Just one more day to go until MERLN’s PhD Day begins! This year’s theme is ‘Combining Knowledge and Building Solutions: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Regenerative Medicine’. We are excited for a day full of inspiring talks, poster presentations, and rapid-fire sessions!

PhD vacancy in the IBE department @merln-um.bsky.social with Simon van Herck vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Second invited talk today by Carlos Peniche #eors2025 in Davos. This time in the sistersymposium @eutermis.bsky.social with EORS and as a #risingstar. Very proud #supervisor @merln-um.bsky.social

Sincere thanks to Associate Professor Duygu Ege from Boğaziçi University for her inspiring talk on 'Eco-conscious hydrogels for applications in bone, skeletal muscle, neural, and cardiac regeneration' at MERLN. The visit was hosted by our Scientific Director, Lorenzo Moroni #merlninstitute

We are happy to announce that MERLN’s PhD Candidate, Liline Fermin, will receive the MDR Young Talent Incentive. This grant, providing €10k, will allow her to explore a new direction in her research on ‘Utilizing eosinophil response to enhance biomaterial-driven bone regeneration’. #merlninstitute

Maastricht University's magazine, UMagazine, featured a great article on MERLN’s Principal Investigator, Niloofar Tahmasebi Birgani, where she shares her deep fascination with science. www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/night-t... #maastrichtuniversity #merlninstitute

Sincere thanks to Parth Chansoria for his inspiring talk on 'Biofabrication Across Frontiers: Shaping Light to Engineer Biomimetic Tissues' at MERLN. Parth is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at #ETHZurich. The visit was hosted by Lorenzo Moroni.

We are thrilled to announce that our Scientific Director, Lorenzo Moroni, has received the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for his project MECCANO. This €3.5M grant will allow him to explore a new direction in his research on engineering complex materials to guide and train stem cells.

🎉We’re excited to announce two MERLN projects have received funding from ZonMw’s Human Measurement Models to advance animal-free innovation. Congrats to PIs, Berta Cillero Pastor and Silvia Bolognin👏👏🍾

🎉Three MERLN projects receive the NWO Open Call ENW-XS grant! Congratulations to Jonathan Briones 👏, Yang Ge 👏, Niloofar Tahmasebi👏. Bravo!!! 🥳🍾 Please find their project title and descriptions below.

Next week marks the start of #TERMISEU2025! 🔥We are excited to see so many MERLN researchers featured throughout the four-day program. We look forward to an inspiring conference in Freiburg.🚀

🎙️MERLN Speaker Series will host Assoc Prof Dr. Adam Celiz on May 27, presenting ‘Engineering soft materials as advanced tissue matrices and next generation medical devices’. 🌟Join and explore hydrogel's role as biomimetic matrices for 3D cell culture and surgical glues.

🎉Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Carlos Peniche Silva, for being awarded the Kootstra Talent Fellowship on his research project “TendoMir: MicroRNA-enhanced Mechanical Stimulation for Tendon Regeneration”.

Meet Dr. Paul Wieringa, assistant professor at MERLN, developing in vitro tissue models to reveal novel insights into endometriosis & fallopian tube. lnkd.in/eW54Ns5N 👨‍🔬“I enjoy working on these kinds of innovative approaches. It allows us to explore questions that we previously were unable to."

🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Shivesh Anand on securing the prestigious NWO Rubicon Grant! He’ll be advancing electro-osmotic bioactive pumps for the treatment of lymphedema at Stanford University School of Medicine. Proud moment! ❤️🚀

Last week, we hosted the 3rd Reg4Bone network meeting at MERLN. Martijn van Griensven welcomed our partners from industry, research, clinical institutions in Germany and Netherlands, who are collaborating to develop innovative solutions for bone regeneration in large defects. 🌟 www.reg4bone.com/en

A follow-up 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 for the 🎓Maastricht BSc Regenerative Medicine and Technology program will be held 𝗼𝗻🗓️𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵. Great chance to learn more about the program💡while getting live answers from our experts! 🧑‍🔬

We're hiring! We are looking for a creative and self-motivated researcher eager to learn, collaborate, and contribute to the future of creating biomaterials from supramolecular polymers. Come work @merln-um.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

🎓 Maastricht BSc RMT Program launches its Experience Day on April 9th We warmly invite you to experience first-hand what our program offers, including a Lab Practical session! 🔗Register now: lnkd.in/e743xsfG 🔗More details: lnkd.in/ewtEY8VM Can't make it in person? Check this out: lnkd.in/ewcRgMxt

🎉Big congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Jonathan Briones, on being awarded the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships for his research in early human embryogenesis using blastoids derived from pluripotent stem cells, aiming for improving in-vitro fertilization techniques. Bravo!!

MERLN, the international lead partner in the #ZIM Innovation network Reg4Bone, will host the 3rd network meeting on April 23 2025. Join industry, research, clinical experts from DE and NL to drive innovative solutions for bone regeneration. Join or connect with us?👉https://www.reg4bone.com/en

Excited to share that Prof. Lorenzo Moroni recently visited CÚRAM and delivered an exciting talk on biofabrication technologies and innovative strategies for regenerative medicine.👨‍🔬💡Sincere thanks to Dr. Andrew Daly for hosting this event. We look forward to further collaborations between us.🌍

🎙️MERLN Speaker Series is excited to feature two speakers on Mar 18: Prof. Sandra Van Vlierberghe from Ghent University and Dr. Jasper Van Hoorick from BIO_INX 🌟Join us and enjoy a unique blend of academic insight and industrial innovation for Biomedical Engineering #3Dprinting #TissueRegeneration

🚨 Symposium alert! Are you planning to join the next #Biofabrication Conference in the beautiful Warsaw? Send your abstract to the symposium chaired by @moronigroup.bsky.social and myself. Keynotes by Yan Yan Shery Huang and @skylarscott.bsky.social. Deadline: 14/05! @merln-um.bsky.social

How can we automate the development of digital twins? Are you ambitious and want to do a PhD? Join the computational group @merln-um.bsky.social for the @erc.europa.eu AUTOMATHIC project! Details below!

🎓Join the One-of-a-Kind Bachelor in Regenerative Medicine and Technology (BSc RMT) at Maastricht University 📅We warmly invite you to our 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟴𝘁𝗵! 🔗Register here: lnkd.in/eCxATBXP 🔗For more details: lnkd.in/ewtEY8VM @maastrichtu.bsky.social

🎙️MERLN Speaker Series will feature Prof. Dr. Ben Goult on Feb 11, presenting ‘TALIN in MECHANOmemory – spatial organisation by binary mechanochemical switches.’ 🌟Join us and discover how TALIN switches interact with enzymes 👀 and their roles in disease with @bengoult.bsky.social

🎉Thrilled to share that our PI, Dr. Vanessa LaPointe, has been appointed as a new member of The Young Academy @DeJongeAkademie. As a member, she'll champion projects focusing on science policy, interdisciplinarity, internationalisation, and bridging academia with society and art.🌍🔬🌟

🎉Congratulations to our MERLNer Dr. @PierpaoloFucile on being elected as Chair-Elect of the TERMIS-EU SYIS (Student and Young Investigator Section). Well-deserved!! In his role, he’ll work with the Chair to lead SYIS-EU activities and prepare for his transition to the Chair role.

📢We’re hiring! One PhD: 'developing a therapy for severe myopia' One Postdoc: 'an organoid-based cell therapy for conjunctival disease' 🗓️Deadline: 12 Feb 2025 🌟Help us spread the news! 🔗More Info: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

🎙️Kickstarting the new academic year with our first MERLN Speaker Series! This Tuesday, 21 Jan, Professor Jeroen Bakkers @bakkerslab.bsky.social will bring an exciting talk on ‘The Fish that Heals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Cardiac Regeneration’. ✨Join us in discussing cutting-edge research!