Bert Janssen appointed Professor of Structural Cell Biology

Utrecht University has appointed Bert Janssen as Professor of Structural Cell Biology. Janssen and his team use and develop techniques to visualize interactions between cells in great detail. As these interactions play a critical role in the optimal functioning of our tissues, gaining new insights into them could potentially pave the way for more effective treatments of, for example, cancer and diseases of the nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis. Diseases. Cells within our bodies interact with each other via proteins on their surfaces. The precise structure of these proteins is crucial in this context, as it determines, amongst other things, how specifically proteins bind to other molecules. Cells interact with each other to exchange information, such as in our immune system or nervous system, and to form tissues, groups of cells that work together.