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Apr 2024

Matthijs Fockens defended his PhD

We are happy to share that Matthijs Fockens is the first official PhD student from our research grou…

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Apr 2024

Back to the ESRF

Thanks to the ESRF – The European Synchrotron and HOAhub, we have achieved a significant milestone b…

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Feb 2024

Last months visit to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Last month we visited the HiP-CT used by the Human Organ Atlas Hub (HOAHub) at the ESRF – The Europe…

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Feb 2024

Sophie Visser got awarded an NWO Doctoral Scholarship for Teachers

Extremely proud of our research assistant Sophie Visser who has successfully secured an NWO Doctoral…

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Jan 2024

Matthijs Valstar Wins the Bolk Prize!

Former Ph.D. candidate Matthijs Valstar has been awarded the prestigious Bolk Prize at the Congress…

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Jan 2024

Successful Meeting at the Dutch Anatomical Association

As we begin the new year, it’s a pleasure to look back at the successful meeting of the Dutch Anatom…

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Jan 2024

Radio interview at NPO Radio 1

Bernadette de Bakker was a guest on Roos Abelman’s NPO Radio 1 Spraakmakers show. For one hour, she…

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Jan 2024

Launch of the Little Miracles Foundation

The Launch of the Little Miracles Foundation is Official! We are proud to announce the establishment…

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Dec 2023

Outreach in 5 of the biggest Dutch Newspapers!

As 2023 draws to a close, our research has been highlighted in five of The Netherlands’ major newspa…

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Dec 2023

Dutch Fetal Biobank White paper published in Developmental Cell

We have detailed the Dutch Fetal Biobank’s framework and workflow in this recent white paper, highli…

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Nov 2023

Amsterdam Gala of Science – Science Talent Award

What a fantastic evening the Science Gala was! At a sold-out International Theater Amsterdam, Bernad…

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Nov 2023

Visiting Professorship Gaslini hospital in Genua, Italy

It was a huge pleasure to visit Prof. Andrea Rossi and his team of pediatric neuroradiologists last…

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Nov 2023

AR&D Retreat: All Aboar&d

The Amsterdam Reproduction & Development Research Institute of Amsterdam UMC hosted a two-day AR…

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Oct 2023

Marieke Buijtendijk presented Cochrane Review at ISUOG in Seoul, South Korea

At October 19 2023, Marieke Buijtendijk presented our preliminary  findings from a Cochrane Systemat…

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Oct 2023

When Science, Society, and Policy converge

A memorable day today, when we had the honor of hosting a delegation of municipal advisors, led by A…

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Oct 2023

Bernadette de Bakker honored as New Scientist Top Science Talent

A groundbreaking exploration into the realm of embryonic development and fetal anatomy has garnered…

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Oct 2023

Unlocking the shape of the fetal heart

Unlocking the shape of the fetal heart: a collaborative research initiative Last September, PhD stud…

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Sep 2023

Interview with Yousif Dawood in JANUS magazine

An interview with our brilliant PhD student Yousif Dawood has been published in JANUS, one of the ma…

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Sep 2023

Ready for the new gold standard in human anatomy?

The Human Organ Atlas Hub (HOAHub) to study human organs in unprecedented detail has been launched t…

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Sep 2023

Inspirational Speech by Dr. de Bakker at the ESNR meeting in Vienna

On September 20, 2023 Dr. de Bakker gave the ‘Inspirational Speech’ at the ESNR meeting for neurorad…

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Aug 2023

Bernadette de Bakker nominated for The New Scientist Science Talent Prize

Diving into the Wonders of Early Life: Nominated for The New Scientist Science Talent Prize —Pleas…

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Jul 2023

Double success at the ISFRI meeting

The International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI) 2023 meeting in TOULOUSE was a g…

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Jul 2023

Three awards for research in collaboration with the Dutch Fetal Biobank!

At the grant ceremony of this year’s Amsterdam Reproduction and Development symposium there were thr…

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Jul 2023

Noorderheide Prize for the Dutch Fetal Biobank

With much joy, we can now announce that Bernadette de Bakker won the prize for best public lecture f…

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Apr 2023

Human Embryonic Staging Paper published in LIFE

Check out our newest paper concerning human embryonic staging which is now published in LIFE. We dis…

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Mar 2023

No evidence for Foetal Lobulation of the Spleen

We are happy to share that our paper entitled ‘Morphological variations of the human spleen: no evid…

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Mar 2023

Dr. E. Slager Award for best presentation

Bernadette de Bakker won the Dr. E. Slager Award for best presentation at the Doelen conference for…

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Jan 2023

Effectiveness of ultrasound screening: a Cochrane systematic review

We are currently undertaking a Cochrane systematic review to determine the accuracy of routine ultra…

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Jan 2023

Best Radiology Cover of the Century

Unbelievable… we won the best cover award of the Centennial at Radiology’s 100th birthday! In honor…

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Nov 2022

Review Imaging Fetal Anatomy

Super proud at my team and fellow researchers for publishing our review entitled ‘Imaging Fetal Anat…

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Nov 2022

First Prize at the UvA Alumni Awards

YES!! We won the Alumni Award of the University of Amsterdam! Yousif Dawood and Dr. Bernadette de Ba…

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Nov 2022

Diligentia Lecture

November 2022   Thanks to prof. dr. Peter Sterk and the Royal Society for Physics for the invit…

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Oct 2022

Winner Logo Contest World Sponge Conference

My brother, Marine Biologist Dr. Didier de Bakker and I won the Logo Contest for designing the logo…

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Oct 2022

Member of Parliament visited the Dutch Fetal Biobank

Jeanet van der Laan, member of the Dutch House of Representatives for D66 with the portfolio of High…

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Sep 2022

Expanding our 3D ultrasound imaging research

“Over the last two years, we have received two research grants to expand our research into 3D fetal…

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Sep 2022

ISUOG World Congress 2022

At the ISUOG World Congress 2022 Dr. Harsha Shah and Dr. Bernadette de Bakker presented their work o…

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Sep 2022

5 years Dutch Fetal Biobank

On September 13 we celebrated the foundation of the Dutch Fetal Biobank on Sept. 13, 2017. We thank…

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Sep 2022

First prize at ToScA Image Competition

We won the first prize at the Micro-CT image competition at the ToScA conference in London!! Thanks…

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Aug 2022

Human pelvis development published in Science Advances

Proud to share with you our collaborative contribution to the paper: The developmental impacts of na…

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Jun 2022

ESPR 2022 in Marseille

THANKS to Owen Arthurs and Guillaume Gorincour for inviting me to present the 3D atlas projects at E…

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Jun 2022

AR&D grant for imaging ectopic pregnancies

Grateful for being awarded the Amsterdam Reproduction and Development (AR&D) Start small, Think…

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May 2022

Cranial nerve development published in Clinical Anatomy

YES! Our manuscript entitled ‘A three-dimensional analysis of cranial nerve development in human emb…

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Dec 2021

Buffalo Chest paper published in CHEST

Proud to share with you our awesome paper concerning THE LEGEND OF THE BUFFALO CHEST, as published i…

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Nov 2021

Family Prof. Jan Langman visited 3D Embryo Atlas

Such an honour that the wife and daughter of the late Prof. Jan Langman came over from the USA and v…

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Feb 2021

AIUM Webinar: how to perform and interpret first-trimester 3D ultrasound

We hosted a live webinar on how to perform and interpret first-trimester 3D ultrasound scanning usin…

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Dec 2019

The 3D Ultrasound Atlas Website is online!

Great news: our website is live! On this website we present our ongoing research aimed at the creati…

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