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September 18, 2025

Medical data, hospital patient-specific data, are highly sensitive to privacy and are essential for research in the biomedical field. Although there are many new approaches to creating databases that ensure data must be FAIR and GDPR compliant, these approaches require the intervention of secured data handlers. To address this gap, this study investigates and designs a standardized Federated Learning (FL) architecture for medical data.

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September 9, 2025

Jianbo Zhang (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam) receives the grant for the research project: A Neonatal anaerobic Gut-microbiome-on-a-Chip to decode bacterial colonization and infant gut T cell maturation (NeoGutChip). The early days of life are a critical window to develop a healthy relationship with the infant gut microbiota. Because these early residents can train our naïve immune system for later challenges such as infections and allergens.

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June 30, 2025

In the first half of 2025, we had another successful consortium meeting. All work packets have started, and most things go according to our planning. In the news items of this period, we proudly present information about our impact, our progress, and dissemination efforts. For instance: WP2 & WP3 had a Mini-Hackaton focused on building knowledge graphs for applications in microbiome research during the first 1000 days of life. A HvA-mathematics student wrote a very interesting article about ‘in silico modelling’ of the gut.

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June 26, 2025

Nymphaea Notschaele from Inholland University of Applied Sciences presented our behavioral design research 'Applicability of Behavioral Design Methods in the MetaHealth Project'. 

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June 23, 2025

Within WP5, researchers from Amsterdam UMC and colleagues investigated how policy officers of Dutch municipalities view bans on advertising unhealthy and unsustainable products in public spaces.

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June 20, 2025

MetaHealth researcher and PhD-candidate Bich Chau from WP1 contributed to the content of the play Doekje voor het bloeden (A Bandage for the Bleeding) by George Tobal.

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June 5, 2025

Are you passionate about research that tackles health inequalities from the earliest stages of life? Do you enjoy working in an interdisciplinary research setting? The UvA Computational Science Lab is looking for an ambitious Post-Doctoral researcher.

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May 19, 2025

On April 28, 2025, researchers from the Computational Science Lab (CSL), the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab (INDElab), and the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) came together for a collaborative hackathon focused on building knowledge graphs for applications in microbiome research.

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May 2, 2025

Now closed for responses! As a PhD student working on this project, you will contribute to the analyses of metagenomic ...

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April 25, 2025

On Monday April 14 we had a successful consortium meeting at ACTA Amsterdam. We had pitches and presentations by Carla Rodrigues, Denise Duijster, Inês Magalhães and Susanne Pinto, Luuk Haring (GGD), Vivek M. Sheraton, Karla Muller, Shivam Kumar, Coen Berns, Technasium pitch & discussion, Bastiaan Krom, Aliki Antoniou, Sofía Jiménez Ochoa, Martinette Streppel, Nymphaea Notschaele and Lea Hohendorf.

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April 11, 2025

How healthy are a baby's first thousand days? Dental Tribune interviewed Prof. Dr. Egija Zaura, program leader, and Sjaak Lammerts, program manager of MetaHealth.

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DIEMEN - Reclame / PR Campagne fotomateriaal Hogeschool Inholland. - FOTO GUUS SCHOONEWILLE

March 10, 2025

As part of the MetaHealth project and within the framework of the Minor MetaHealth, WP1 and WP6 are pleased to welcome Oral Hygiene students from Inholland University of Applied Sciences.

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February 27, 2025

HvA Mathematics student Sonny Speijer worked on modeling the transit of nutrients in the intestine and its application within our MetaHealth program in WP3: In silico modeling. He has written an article about this for The Network Pages.

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February 27, 2025

The Amsterdam Microbiome Expertise Center (AMEC) 2025 Day, February 13, brought together leading researchers, industry experts, and young scientists to explore the latest advancements in microbiome science.

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February 25, 2025

´How do you know what you know?´ is a question of all times and cultures that is subject to constant change. In our society, digitalization is having a profound effect on how we know what we know. However, due to a toxic mix of geopolitical tensions and rapidly evolving artificial intelligence, our everyday truth is at risk. While, as humans, we need knowledge to survive.

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December 18, 2024

What can you find in this newsletter? Our activities in brief: In the second half of 2024, we had another successful consortium meeting focussed on impact. We presented our new researchers and important changes in the organization. In this fourth newsletter we share the links to the news items from the second half year of 2024.

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November 12, 2024

How are we creating impact? What did we promise in 2021 and how do we see it in 2024? On Tuesday November 12 we had a successful Consortium meeting with the following program:

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November 1, 2024

The leader of Work Package 1, Prof. dr. ir. Monique van der Veen, began her role as a professor in 'Collaborating on Oral Health' at Inholland University of Applied Sciences on November 1, 2024. This collaboration is much needed according to Monique.

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September 6, 2024

Following his appointment as Professor of Oral Microbiology on December 1, 2023, the leader of work package 4, Prof. dr. Bastiaan Krom delivered his inaugural lecture on September 6, 2024. In this lecture, entitled 'Fungi: Master of Puppets' he reflected on the oral microbiology field and gave a glimpse into the future.

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September 5, 2024

This concerns an undesirable social development that is detrimental to public health. Health scientist Dr. Joreintje Mackenbach of the Amsterdam UMC has responded to this issue as an expert on RTL Z during a prime-time news broadcast.

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August 10, 2024

February 13, 2025, Discover the fascinating world of microbes and microbiomes at the Amsterdam Microbiome Day. And in the evening, we are pleased to welcome Kristina Campbell, an expert in gut health and author of Gut Health for Dummies, for a talk in Amsterdam.

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July 19, 2024

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated PhD candidate to study the eco-evolutionary processes that shape microbiomes in infants.

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July 11, 2024

The program runs well in our second year. In this third newsletter we share the links to the most important news items / results from the first half year of 2024.

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June 10, 2024

You can join and follow us to see the latest news items that are published on our MetaHealth website.

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June 5, 2024

Three scientists of WP6 went to the 13th Conference Supporting Health by Technology and presented their research.

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June 5, 2024

Exploring Host-Oral Microbiome Interactions in Early Life Through 3D Organotypic Models.

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June 5, 2024

In Multiscale Spatiotemporal Modelling of Microbiome during the First 1000 Days of Life.

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May 31, 2024

FAIR compliant database development for human microbiome data samples.

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May 30, 2024

Does your practice attend to people with low literacy, limited health literacy or migrants not yet fluent in Dutch?

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May 30, 2024

Drinking enough is important. Do you often choose soft drinks or juice as a thirst quencher? Then keep in mind that you also ingest a lot of sugar with it.

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May 21, 2024

During the half-yearly meeting on April 15th, we organized a World Café with the theme ‘Bridging the scientific world with practice’. Attendees were divided over small groups to discuss and answer questions.

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April 22, 2024

On Monday April 15 in the afternoon we had a successful Consortium meeting.

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January 17, 2024

RIVM published on the 17th of January 2024 a model calculation on the objectives of the National Prevention Agreement (NPA).

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January 9, 2024

Dies speech during the 2024 Dies Natalis celebration of the UvA by Egija Zaura.

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December 15, 2023

What can you find in this second newsletter? Introduction & progress by Egija Zaura Progress in the work packages Progress ...

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July 31, 2023

What can you find in this first newsletter? Ten million Euros from the Dutch National Research Agenda How is the ...

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