News

Prof. Bellin will be an invited speaker at the upcoming iPSZürich Symposium at the University of Zürich, presenting in the session on "Translational and Clinical Applications". 

Congratulations to Francesca Libralon, who defended her Master's thesis and graduated cum laude!

Congratulations to Emma Zanella, PhD student in our laboratory, who won the Best Poster Prize at the 23rd Dutch-German Joint Meeting in Amsterdam! Emma presented her work "Multicellular human cardiac microtissues to uncover disease mechanisms and therapeutic rescue in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy" (IMPACT project).

Congratulations to Beatrice Gabbin, who has been awarded the 2025-2026 Distinguished Women Scientists Fund travel grant by the Dutch Network of Women Professors! She will use this grant to support her upcoming postdoctoral research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

Congratulations to Davide Visentin, who defended his Master's thesis and graduated cum laude!

Congratulations to Carola Carlini, PhD student in our laboratory, who won the prize for Best Poster at the ABCD-SIBBM National Ph.D. Meeting 2026 (Ferrara, Italy)! Carola presented her poster "Generation and characterization of allelic series of hiPSCs to classify variants of unknown significance in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy" as part of the IMPACT project.

Congratulations to Viviana, our Senior Researcher in Leiden, who won the Prize for the best oral presentation by postdoctoral researchers during the Quarterly Regenerative Medicine Theme Awards in the categories "Visual design & delivery and Audience engagement & discussion"!

We bid farewell to our Research Technician from the Leiden Lab, Dorien Ward, and wish her all the best for this new chapter! Thank you for your years of dedication and hard work. 

Congratulations to Beatrice, who successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "From Biofabrication to Multi-Organ Platforms: Engineering the Human Heart-Kidney Axis In Vitro" last week!