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AIMMS 2025 Festival is open!

On 27-28 January, join 150+ of VU Amsterdam’s brightest molecular scientists and spark the next big breakthroughs in food, pharma and the environment. Get your tickets now!

 

Ivana Drienovská receives Vidi Funding for Sustainable Research

AIMMS is VU Amsterdam’s molecular research accelerator

Kickstarting the next big discoveries in food, pharma, environmental & life sciences

 
 

Paul Nederkoorn appointed as endowed professor of Valorization of Science and Technology

 

AIMMS researchers win €5M NWO Perspective Grant for the plant-based fermentation proposal

 
 

What are the next killer applications of mass spectrometry?

Mass spectrometry (MS) is playing a crucial role in a wide range of life sciences applications.

What are the upcoming advancements and how can we drive further innovation at this frontier?

AIMMS 2023 Festival Recap

150 scientists and industry collaborating and pushing science further

Measure

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli.

Methods

  • Effect Directed Analsys (EDA)

  • Analytical chemistry

  • (Cell) Biology

  • Single-cell

Effect Directed Analsys (EDA)

Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli.

Sample projects

Meet the Scientist: Jeroen Kool

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Jeroen Kool Associate Professor of BioAnalytical Chemistry, Faculty of  Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences "My love for nature and chemistry led me to pursue science" Can…

Microbiologist Edith Houben and team secure €10M ERC Synergy Grant

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A team led by microbiologist Edith Houben at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has secured an ERC Synergy Grant, worth over €10 million, to study tuberculosis bacterium's…

Ivana Drienovská receives Vidi Funding for Sustainable Research

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Chemist Ivana Drienovská receives the Vidi for her research Greening Our World: Unlocking Enzymatic Solutions for the Fluorination Reaction.  For decades, scientists have marveled at the remarkable catalytic…

Analytical chemistry

Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli.

Techniques

MIMETAS OrganoPlate® Challenge Winner Selected

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Congratulations to Elisabeth Naderlinger, Lenya de Brouwer, and Olivia Klatt for winning the MIMETAS-AIMMS VU OrganoPlate® Platform Proposal Contest! 🎉 The idea for the MIMETAS-AIMMS…

Kickstarting the animal to plant protein transition

| Challenges, Food, Human health & food | No Comments
When ten bright minds come together for two full days, innovation is bound to prosper! The first AIMMS hackathon revolved all around finding alternative protein…

Sample projects

Meet the Scientist: Jeroen Kool

| Meet the Scientist | No Comments
Jeroen Kool Associate Professor of BioAnalytical Chemistry, Faculty of  Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences "My love for nature and chemistry led me to pursue science" Can…

Microbiologist Edith Houben and team secure €10M ERC Synergy Grant

| Research | No Comments
A team led by microbiologist Edith Houben at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has secured an ERC Synergy Grant, worth over €10 million, to study tuberculosis bacterium's…

Ivana Drienovská receives Vidi Funding for Sustainable Research

| Research | No Comments
Chemist Ivana Drienovská receives the Vidi for her research Greening Our World: Unlocking Enzymatic Solutions for the Fluorination Reaction.  For decades, scientists have marveled at the remarkable catalytic…

(Cell) Biology

Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli.

Sample projects

Microbiologist Edith Houben and team secure €10M ERC Synergy Grant

| Research | No Comments
A team led by microbiologist Edith Houben at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has secured an ERC Synergy Grant, worth over €10 million, to study tuberculosis bacterium's…

Ivana Drienovská receives Vidi Funding for Sustainable Research

| Research | No Comments
Chemist Ivana Drienovská receives the Vidi for her research Greening Our World: Unlocking Enzymatic Solutions for the Fluorination Reaction.  For decades, scientists have marveled at the remarkable catalytic…

Paul Nederkoorn appointed as endowed professor of Valorization of Science and Technology

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Dr. Mr. Paul Nederkoorn has been appointed by the Vrije Universiteit (VU) as an endowed professor for the chair ‘Valorization of Science and Technology’ within…

Single-cell

Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli.

Meet the Scientist: Jeroen Kool

| Meet the Scientist | No Comments
Jeroen Kool Associate Professor of BioAnalytical Chemistry, Faculty of  Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences "My love for nature and chemistry led me to pursue science" Can…

Microbiologist Edith Houben and team secure €10M ERC Synergy Grant

| Research | No Comments
A team led by microbiologist Edith Houben at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has secured an ERC Synergy Grant, worth over €10 million, to study tuberculosis bacterium's…

Ivana Drienovská receives Vidi Funding for Sustainable Research

| Research | No Comments
Chemist Ivana Drienovská receives the Vidi for her research Greening Our World: Unlocking Enzymatic Solutions for the Fluorination Reaction.  For decades, scientists have marveled at the remarkable catalytic…