Six colleagues who were working in the HIV field - Joep Lange, Jacqueline van Tongeren, Pim de Kuijer, Lucie van Mens, Glenn Thomas, and Martine De Schutter – were killed when their flight en route to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over the Ukraine in...
On April 19–21, 2016, the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) will convene to chart a course for the future to tackle the world's drugs problem. The 2016 UNGASS represents a rare opportunity to reassess the global approach to drugs and to move...
More than one in ten men and one in seven women across the globe are now obese, according to the world’s biggest obesity study. The research, which was led by scientists from Imperial College London, involved the World Health Organization and over 700 researchers across the...
Last Thursday, 24 March, Hanneke Borgdorff successfully defended her PhD, titled "The Vaginal Microbiome, associations with sexually transmitted infections and the mucosal immune response". In a fully packed Agnietenkapel, friends and colleagues listened to her enthusiastic lecture and defense. ...
The 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) will be held on 22-28 July 2018 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at the Amsterdam RAI and is expected to bring together some 18,000 participants from around the world. The AIDS Conference is the largest conference on any global health or development issue....
INVITATION We are happy to invite you to attend the public defense by Hanneke Borgdorff of her thesis: The Vaginal Microbiome, Associations with Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Mucosal Immune Response. Thursday 24th March at 10.00 hours. Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, 1012 EZ Amsterdam Promotores: Prof. dr. J.H.H.M. van de Wijgert...