On the 21st of November, the 22nd Dutch Chromatin Meeting took place in the KINO cinema in Rotterdam. The meeting attracted over 150 attendees from different Dutch universities, UMCs, and other research institutes.

On October 20-24 Tim van Tienhoven attended the 2025 FEBS Workshop on the Molecular and Cellular Pathways of Aging in Hematopoiesis in Crete, Greece. He had already received a grant to attend, as well as both a poster presentation and a short oral presentation. Here, he presented his work titled "Targeting mitochondria mitigates chemotherapy-induced bone marrow dysfunction."

Mandy Lauw (internist-hematologist) received the EHA YoungEHA Award during the recent European Hematology Association (EHA) congress in Milan.

PhD candidate Sophie Hordijk has been selected as one of the five recipients of the Professor Heimburger Award 2025, presented by global biotechnology company CSL Behring. This award, which includes a €25,000 grant, celebrates outstanding clinical and preclinical research by early-career scientists working to improve care for patients with bleeding disorders.

The Erasmus MC Hematology Department is excited to announce our new fall lecture series!Starting on September 1st, there will be webinars from excellent researchers covering a wide range of hematological (and related) topics. The series will start with Mark Dawson. 

Drs Meltem Yildirim has been awarded the Mosaic 2.0 Grant for research on the role of inflammation in TP53-mutant cancer evolution, with the invaluable support and guidance of Dr Mathijs Sanders and Prof Dr Marc Raaijmakers.