Discover the stories, insights, and highlights from GUTS. Here you’ll find news articles, website posts and other content that showcase our projects and research. Dive in and see how we bring our ideas to life.
Iris Nagtegaal in the Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Pathologie (NVVP) 2026 – nr 1, March 2026.

Interview with Sonay Kuş Öztürk in the Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Pathologie (NVVP) 2026 – nr 1, March 2026.

Sonay Kuş Öztürk about tumor budding in the Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Pathologie (NVVP) 2025 – nr 2, November 2025.

Iris Nagtegaal in the Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Pathologie (NVVP) 2025 – nr 2, November 2025.

For the MDL Fonds campaign a flyer was distributed to help fund Annemarie Boleij’s project to explore associations between gut microbiota, toxins and lifestyle factors, March 2025.

Annemarie Boleij contributed to an article about microbiota-immune interactions in cancer development and treatment which was highlighted in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Oncologie, July 2024.

On the website of Stichting CDH1, the patient advocacy group for patient with Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer, an interview with Jaimy Peters, one of our master students, who went to New Zealand for training period.

Annemarie Boleij, together with Francesco Ciompi and Nils Kohn seek to provide insights into the complex relationship between gut health and mental well-being. The European research project HEREDITARY, which began in January 2024, aims to lay the foundation for an advanced AI platform over the coming years, supported by an eleven million euro grant from the European Commission. ICT&health June 2024.

The article was also highlighted in het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Leefstijlgeneeskunde, December 2023



On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, there was a lot of media attention for Napoleon, including a pathology paper, initiated by Alessandro Lugli, our collaborator in Bern. Chella van der Post was one of the authors. One of our large national newspapers paid really close attention!

Annemarie Boleij in Immunoncologie.nl, 2020.

As chair of PALGA, Iris speculates over the future…

The World Health Organisation coordinates the classification of cancer and precursors. Periodically updates are made, as was the case for the WHO Classification of Digestive System Tumors in 2019. Three Radboudumc gastrointestinal pathologists were involved: Chella van der Post, Lodewijk Brosens and Iris Nagtegaal (editor). The Radboud Oncology news made an item out of it.

The surreal swimming challenge from Maarten van der Weijden kept the whole of the Netherlands fascinated for days! One of the research projects that could be financed by this endeavor was the Hereditary Pancreas carcinoma project by GUTS! We made the front page of the local newspaper.

There is no higher praise for a research project than being depicted by the great Belgian cartoonist Kamagurka in the national press!

Annemarie Boleij in the Radboud Report Oncologie, 2018.

Annemarie Boleij in the Dutch Digestive Disease News, June 2018.

How cool is that to be on the front page of a magazine (of the Dutch patient advocacy group for patients with gastrointestinal cancer).

In an interview in Oncologie up to date, Iris Nagtegaal describes how the Dutch national pathology infrastructure (PALGA: the Dutch nationwide pathology databank) is the global trendsetter in pathology for standardisation and reporting; this can be applied to ensure the Dutch pathology remains best in the world.

Chella van der Post was one of the first Dutch pathologists who was elected as one of the international “rising stars” of Pathology.

Annemarie Boleij about her research at John Hopkins University in the Reformatorisch dagblad, February 24th 2016.

Annemarie Boleij her research was highlighted in the NVML VAPvisie Analyse, 2016.

An early interview of Chella van der Post, about her future as a pathologist…

At the 50th anniversary of PALGA, the Dutch nationwide pathology databank.

An interview with Iris Nagtegaal on what the pathologist can do for you, as a patient in the Radboud Oncology Report.

We at GUTS want to engage patient groups in order to ensure our work remains meaningfull. In this interview from the Dutch patient advocacy group, Iris Nagtegaal explains what lymph nodes are and why they are important.

Interview on occasion of the grant to investigate mucinous colorectal carcinoma, published in the magazine of the MLDS (now MDL Fonds).

Annemarie Boleij visible in the MLDS (now MDL Fonds) newspaper from 2011.

