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SEE YOU THERE ?️   YEAH! Tomorrow we will kick off: HIV Next Gen! Looking forward to an exciting 3 day event in Hotel Casa Amsterdam with inspring talks of beautiful change makers, cool activities in Amsterdam and meeting everyone who signed up from all corners of the world!

This month, at April 16, the Viruskenner final day at high school SMA 16 in Surabaya was organised by the international Viruskenner team.  Around 300 Indonesian students learned how viruses spread and may lead to infection and disease, shared knowledge with each other and devised ways to disseminate that knowledge. [...]

A true virus-fighter thinks outside the box   When you start a new job you always meet new people, that is where I met Samantha Grimley, a Postdoctoral researcher at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne. Samantha studies the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. I asked her if she [...]

Olympic officials are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the norovirus that has sickened dozens of security guards days ahead of the official kickoff of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games. Around 1,200 security staff members have been kept in their rooms while they wait to be tested for the highly [...]

Viruskenner kicked off at primary and secondary schools in Suriname! After the kick-off of the 64 schools in The Netherlands and the start this week at SMA Negeri in Indonesia, it was time for the start of Viruskenner in Suriname. Coaches Prof. Eric, Roos and Valéry gave information about the [...]

Kick-off Viruskenner Viruskenner Indonesia kicked off this week at SMA Negeri 16 in Surabaya! 300 enthusiastic students, their teachers, doctors of RSUD Dr. Soetomo and 3 Viruskenner coaches from Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands where there! Viruskenner in the newspapers The newspapers Bhirawa Paper and Jawa Pos publicated articles [...]

Why Viruskenner? Infectious diseases, old and new, can suddenly appear and cause an outbreak (epidemic or pandemic). Important examples are Ebola, Chikungunya, Zika and Yellow fever virus. Unfortunately, we do not yet have treatment for most new virus infections and developing a vaccine takes time. The slogan 'prevention is better [...]

Yesterday was the day all students of SMA16 and the Viruskenner-Team looked so much forward to: the day that the Kick-Off of Viruskenner 2017 finally took place in Surabaya, Indonesia with all classes from X-MIA- classes. But not only the students and Viruskenner-team were there, many of the teachers and [...]

Are you wondering what the Viruskenner team of the Viroscience department in the Erasmus Medical Center does more, except organising Viruskenner? The Erasmus Magazine had an interview with Professor van Gorp. Read his story here!

May 23rd, the Final Day of Viruskenner 2016 in Surabaya, Indonesia, took place. This second year of the Viruskenner project at SMAN (high school) 16 was another success, with loads of information about the viruses and some outstanding movies. In the last eight weeks, students worked together on one of [...]

Today, the 23rd of March, Viruskenner 2016 started in Indonesia! With an interesting program including speakers from Dr Soetomo Hospital in Surabaya as well as from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam we introduced the current 10th grade students from high school SMA Negeri 16 in the field of viruses. [...]

Yesterday the Viruskenner team arrived in Indonesia! Today they visited the high school, SMAN 16, to prepare the kick-off later this week. Wesley and Laura visited all 10th grade science classes to introduce the students in the project. This year 5 residents from the Internal Medicine Department from Dr Soetomo [...]