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MOVE is a Research Institute of the VU University Amsterdam. The goal of MOVE is to improve and/or optimize human movement by conducting excellent scientific research.
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Grant for Theo Smit and Esther Middelkoop
MOVE members Theo Smit and Esther van Middelkoop (together with Magda Ulrich) received a grant from Brandwondenstichting for a project, entitled ‘Cellular responses to mechanical loading: an in vitro model for splinting regimes’.
In this project it is aimed to set up an in vitro test system which makes it possible to study different splint/stretching treatment [...]
ArgoSpine thesis award for Roel Hoogendoorn
MOVE researcher Roel Hoogendoorn, who had his PhD defence on October 9, 2009, will receive the ArgoSpine thesis award 2010.
The ArgoSpine thesis award recognizes outstanding medical and/or biomechanics research targeting a comtemporary clinical problem in the management of spinal pathologies. The award includes a 1 500€ prize, winner’s travel and accommodation expenses on the occasion [...]
Farewell Professor Guus Lankhorst
Professor Guus Lankhorst, head of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine VUmc, and initiator and first director of MOVE, has retired as of December 2009. In his farewell lecture, he gave an overview of the development of rehabilitation medicine in the Netherlands, focussing on the recent, very successful research programmes in this area. He emphasized that [...]
Calendar
- May 19, 2010
PhD Ceremony
Lucienne Vonk
Chondrocytes and chondrons for tissue engineering of cartilage
1.45 hrs, Aula (main building VU) - May 21, 2010
PhD Ceremony
Ana Santos
Intercellular communication between osteocytes and stem cells: implications for bone tissue engineering
1.45 hrs, Aula (main building VU) - June 2, 2010
PhD Ceremony
Paulien van Kampen
Asymmetry in Action
1.45 hrs, Aula (main building VU) - June 30, 2010
PhD Ceremony
Johan Koedijker
Automatization and deautomatization of perceptual-motor skills
1.45 hrs, Aula (main building VU)