The dutch heart foundation has decided to fund our research project ‘energise’ with a total sum of 5 mE. The aim of the project is to investigate if boosting energy expenditure can help to prevent the development of insulin resistance and cardiovascular diseases. The project is a collaboration between the universities of Amsterdam (AMC), Wageningen, Leiden and Maastricht and is lead by Prof. Patrick Schrauwen and Prof. Frits Rosendaal (LUMC). In maastricht, we will specifically focus on skeletal...

The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW) has funded the project Circadian Rhythm of Muscle Mitochondrial Metabolism; the project is a collaboration between the university of Amsterdam (AMC) and Maastricht (MUMC) and is lead by Prof. Andries Kalsbeek and Prof. Patrick Schrauwen.. Because more and more people live a 24h life, disturbances in our normal biological clock are very common. We here investigate if disturbing the biological clock will lead to insulin resis...