On this page, you can read the latest news from and about the campus: stories about partnerships, new projects, companies and initiatives on and around the campus.
UMCG is continuing the development of the new Central Laboratory for Diagnostics and Research (CLDR). Over the coming period, the preliminary design will be further developed into a final design, bringing the realization of the new laboratory building another step closer.
Every day, innovations with a real impact on healthcare, technology and sustainability are developed at Campus Groningen. Across the various laboratories on Zernike Campus, companies are working on technologies that help detect cancer, stop life-threatening bleeding and enable new materials for medical and chemical applications.
An idea conceived in a Groningen laboratory has grown into a tablet that is now being tested in patients for the first time. In the world of drug development, that is a rare achievement. Yet this is exactly what entrepreneur Kees van der Graaf, owner of Sulfateq, and Rob Henning, pharmacologist at the UMCG, have accomplished with SUL-238, an investigational drug that could potentially help treat chronic conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, heart failure and kidney disease.
The University of Groningen (RUG), Hanze and the ACLO are joining forces to build a new Sports Centre on Zernike Campus. The new building will be constructed next to the current Sports Centre. Construction work is now underway. Pile driving starts 3 July, 2026.
When top athlete and Team 4 Mijl ambassador Paavo de Leng fires the starting gun on Friday 11 September, Campus Groningen will quite literally spring into action. During the seventh edition of the Campus Trail, participants will run a 6.4-kilometre course packed with innovation, remarkable locations, live music and unexpected encounters.
How can we make millions of homes more sustainable without burdening residents with high costs or requiring entire neighbourhoods to undergo energy upgrades at the same time? That question has driven researchers at DNV on Campus Groningen over the past eighteen months. The result was unveiled on 18 June: a proof-of-concept multi-fuel boiler capable of automatically switching between different types of sustainable gases.
The UMCG Transplant Centre at the Healthy Ageing Campus is developing an Organ Assessment & Repair Centre (ARC)
What if students didn't just learn about the future, but actually helped build it? In the open category of the RDW Self-Driving Challenge, educational institutions are working on autonomous mobility in real-world settings.
On Tuesday 9 June, the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2026 was presented. The 6th edition of the annual award ceremony took place at Forum Groningen. Sasha Ivashchenko won the award in the researcher category and Thijs van der Laan was presented with the prize in the student category.
