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RIHS Awards ceremony Six winners

4 March 2021

On 2 March, the RIHS Awards 2020 ceremony took place online. In front of an audience of more than 150 colleagues, RIHS awardees accepted their awards. New this year was the Patient Involvement Award for those who actively involved patients in their studies. Curious who they are? Read it now!

ZonMw grants to study optimal use of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with impaired immune systems

3 February 2021

How do people with reduced immunity, especially kidney patients, react to a COVID-19 vaccination? And how can patients with peripheral arterial disease be helped by DNA testing? Our researchers received grants from ZonMw to make these studies possible.

New research through grants for Radboudumc researchers

14 January 2021

Several researchers at the Radboudumc have received grants to start new studies, including on rare diseases, liver disease and cancer metastases. These are grants from the Dutch Research Council, European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases and the Gastric Liver Disease Foundation.

Dutch Digestive Foundation grant for Joost Drenth

13 January 2021

Joost Drenth, theme Renal disorders, received a Dutch Digestive Foundation grant in cooperation with his colleagues from Amsterdam UMC and Leiden UMC.

Koen van den Dries received ENW-XS grant from the NWO

7 January 2021

Koen van den Dries has received an ENW-XS grant from the NWO for his project titled: Small differences, large impact: how actin variants differentially control cancer cell migration.

Hermesdorf Prizes for COVID-19 research team and Charlotte Bekker

7 January 2021

The entire COVID-19 research team at Radboudumc, which includes Frank van de Veerdonk, Mihai Netea, Roger Brüggemann, Leo Joosten and Alexander Hoischen, will receive the 2020 Hermesdorf Prize. Charlotte Bekker will be awarded the Hermesdorf Talent Prize.

Last call for nominations RIHS Awards 2020

15 December 2020

RIHS researchers are invited to propose candidates for the RIHS PhD Award, the Societal Impact Award, the Science Award, the Supervisor of the year Award, and the novel RIHS Patient Involvement Award. Deadline for submission is 19 January 2021.

Vidi grants for Francesco Ciompi, Koen Haak and Laurien Buffart

4 November 2020

They each receive 800,000 euros for their own line of research.

Martinus van Marum prize for Tom Schirris

3 April 2020

This award of € 12,500 is intended as an incentive prize for researchers who have obtained their PhD degree in 2015 or later. The jury, consisting of members of the Society, came to this decision unanimously.

HFSP Grant for Johannes Textor

30 March 2020

Johannes Textor, theme Cancer development and immune defense, has been awarded a program grant of 1 million US dollars by The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) to investigate how T cells navigate extremely dense environments using experiments, modeling and methods from pedestrian dynamics.

NWO Open Competition ENW - KLEIN grant for Jenny van der Wijst

9 March 2020

KLEIN grants offer researchers the possibility to realize curiosity-driven, fundamental research and elaborate creative and risky ideas. For this project, Jenny is seeking an enthusiastic postdoc to join her team working on ion channels.

FET-OPEN grant for Toin van Kuppevelt and Willeke Daamen

6 March 2020

A grant of 592 kEuro has been awarded to Toin van Kuppevelt and Willeke Daamen, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine, for a Horizon 2020 FET-OPEN project entitled “Heparin and heparan sulphate: from sequence determination to therapeutic strategies for Parkinson’s disease”.

Plugging the gap ZonMw/Health Holland grant

3 March 2020

RIMLS en RIHS researchers Willeke Daamen, Frank Vandenbussche, Joris van Drongelen, Toin van Kuppevelt and Janneke Grutters have been granted 1.3 million euro for the development and evaluation of a new technology to prevent premature rupture of fetal membranes (iPPROM).

NWO open call GROOT grant for Michiel Vermeulen

24 February 2020

Michiel Vermeulen, theme Cancer development and immune defense, received a 300,000 EUR grant within the NWO-GROOT consortium. He will use mass spectrometry-based proteomics and interaction proteomics applications to study proteome and gene expression dynamics during early C. Elegans development.

NWO open call GROOT grant for Peter Friedl

24 February 2020

Peter Friedl, theme Cancer development and immune defense, received a 300,000 EUR grant within the NWO-GROOT consortium "Active matter of cancer metastasis" to identify the mechanisms of collective metastasis in breast cancer.

Dutch Brain Foundation grant for EENnacoma

20 February 2020

Lavrijsen and Van Erp: ‘This grant will facilitate practice-based research, professionalization and further academization of EENnacoma, and links between different health care and research institutions all for the benefit of people with prolonged disorders of consciousness and their families.'

KNAW Early Career Award for Geert Litjens

13 February 2020

Twelve young researchers received the Early Career Award from KNAW on 4 february. One of them is RIHS researcher Geert Litjens. The Award is aimed at researchers in the Netherlands at the start of their career who are capable of developing innovative and original research ideas.

6 million euros to uncover link between metabolic and brain disorders

21 January 2020

An important European-funded initiative, coordinated by Radboudumc researchers Barbara Franke, Jan Buitelaar, and Janita Bralten, has been launched to explore how common molecular mechanisms may link metabolic disorders with brain disorders.

First BeNeFit funding granted for psoriasis

17 January 2020

RIHS researchers Elke de Jong and Juul van den Reek of Dermatology Radboudumc and Dermatology Ghent received a grant of 1.6 million euros for investigating dose reduction of the newest biologics for psoriasis.

Theme Rare cancers paper award for Sven van den Bosch

18 December 2019

The Radiother Oncology paper by researcher Sven van den Bosch and colleagues, won the first place in the paper award session of the theme Rare cancers. The paper competed with 4 other recent publications produced by radboudumc research groups.

Awarded KWF grants for Radboudumc researchers

18 December 2019

KWF is investing 2.7 million euros in five different studies at Radboudumc. The awards are part of the new round of funding by DCS, in which over 34 million euros will be granted to Dutch cancer research. We congratulate our researchers with this funding and wish them success with their great work.

PPP allowance by Health~Holland for Fons van de Loo

16 December 2019

Fons van de Loo, theme Inflammatory diseases, has been granted a 3 year PPP Allowance made available by Health~Holland for the project ‘REFIT’. The goal of this project is to restore the barrier function, immunity and microbiome of the intestinal tract using extracellular vesicles from milk.

Mohrmann Stipend for Bakker and Peters

12 December 2019

Tuesday 10 December, Esmée Bakker and Yonne Peters were awarded a Christine Mohrmann stipend. The grant – 5000 euros each – gives them an opportunity to spend time at another university, preferably one abroad.

ERC Consolidator Grant for Bousema and Sechopoulos

12 December 2019

Teun Bousema and Ioannis Sechopoulos each receive an ERC Consolidator Grant of around two million euros. This European research subsidy will enable them to carry out research for the next five years.

Call for nominations RIHS Awards 2019

4 December 2019

RIHS researchers are invited to propose candidates for the RIHS PhD Award, the Societal Impact Award, the Science Award and the Supervisor of the year Award. Deadline for nominations is 13 January 2020.

Dutch National Postdoc award for Siroon Bekkering

29 November 2019

Siroon Bekkering, theme Vascular damage, will use the prize money (€10,000) for her follow-up research into the memory of the innate immune system of patients with cardiovascular diseases.

1.5 million for research into young people with mild intellectual disabilities

13 November 2019

Researchers from the Radboud University and Radboudumc will partner with social organisations to map how often young people with mild intellectual disabilities have psychological problems and how they can be treated. The project was recently awarded a subsidy of 1.5 million euro by ZonMw.

KNAW Van Leersum beurs for Mohammad Alsady

7 November 2019

Mohammad Alsady, theme Disorders of movement, received the “KNAW Van Leersum beurs”.

Awardees RIHS Junior Researcher round 2020

23 October 2019

Recently, RIHS held an internal call for Radboudumc junior researcher (PhD) positions. This year 6 positions have been awarded.

DELA, Radboudumc and Games for Health start a new project to fight loneliness among elderly using games

12 August 2019

More than half of people aged 75 and over feel their selves lonely every now and then. A special collaboration between DELA, Radboudumc, and Games for Health will investigate whether joined gaming between elderly and young people can alleviate this social problem.

Floris Schreuder received Dekker grant

6 August 2019

Floris Schreuder received one of the ten Dekker grants from the Dutch Heart Foundation (Hartstichting).

Online mindfulness therapy for patients with cancer and pyschological problems

12 July 2019

Anne Speckens, professor of Psychiatry, and Judith Prins, professor of Medical Psychology, received a KWF grant to do research on online mindfulness therapy for patients diagnosed with cancer and have psychological problems.

Awarded KWF grants for Radboudumc researchers

2 July 2019

The Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) has awarded 25.5 million euros to 50 new research projects in 16 different institutes. 8 grants are awarded to Radboudumc researchers. We congratulate our researchers with this funding and wish them success with their great work.

Grant about abuse of prescription opioids approved

1 July 2019

Kees Kramers, Arnt Schellekens, Femke Atsma, Robert van Dongen and Henk Schers have been granted 1.8 million euro by NWO as part of the call of the Nationale Wetenschaps Agenda, in collaboration with investigators of Leiden and Utrecht university medical center.

Ivan Zhovannik receives best presenter award at MISP

25 June 2019

Ivan Zhovannik was awarded the best presenter award at the MISP 2019 (Medical Imaging Symposium for PhD candidates) held in Groningen.

VIDI grant for Ritse Mann

27 May 2019

Ritse Mann, theme Women's cancers, receives up to 800,000 euros to develop an innovative research theme and to build up his own research group. NWO is awarding the Vidi grant as part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.

Three VIDI grants for RIMLS researchers

24 May 2019

Matthijs Jore, Daniele Tauriello and Johannes Textor are each to receive up to 800,000 euros to develop an innovative research theme and to build up their own research group. NWO is awarding the Vidi grant as part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.

H2020 Grant for Frank Walboomers and Ronald Bartels

23 May 2019

Frank Walboomers and Ronald Bartels, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine, have received a € 500,000 grant for research into graphene biomaterials from the Europan Union Horizon 2020 FET Open programme.

Innovation Grant Dutch Kidney Foundation for Jeroen de Baaij

23 May 2019

Jeroen de Baaij, theme Renal disorders, was awarded with an Innovation Grant of the Dutch Kidney Foundation. Jeroen's research proposal was selected from a competitive field of innovative approaches to treat kidney disease.

Varian award for Frank Dankers

9 May 2019

Frank Dankers and Timo Deist (Maastricht University) were honored with the Varian award 2019 during ESTRO 2019.

Dr. C.J. Roos prize for Hanne Rooijackers

9 May 2019

Hanne Rooijackers, theme Mitochondrial diseases, has been awarded the Dr. C.J. Roos prize for her thesis 'Impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia in type 1 diabetes. The role of lactate.'

ERC Proof of Concept grant for Mangala Srinivas

2 May 2019

Mangala Srinivas, theme Nanomedicine, received an ERC Proof of Concept grant 2019-1 for her project entitled: 'Ex vivo cell labeling for in vivo imaging applied to cell therapy'.

ReumaNederland grant for Peter van der Kraan

17 April 2019

Peter van der Kraan, theme Inflammatory diseases received € 500,000 for research into the development of cartilage damage and pain in knee osteoarthritis.

Rubicon grant for Linda Heskamp

9 April 2019

Linda Heskamp, theme Urological cancers, received a Rubicon grant for her project: Imaging muscle function in ALS patients.

ERC Advanced Grants for RIMLS researchers

28 March 2019

Carl Figdor and Mihai Netea have each received an ERC Advanced Grant. The amount varies per grant, but is approximately 2.5 million euros. They can use this funding to continue their research for the next five years.

RIHS awardees 2017 and 2018 Koek & Zopie ceremony

20 February 2019

And the winners are: Joanne de Hullu, Jonne Doorduin, Stein Schalkwijk, Vincent Aengevaeren, Florieke Eggermont and the initiators of the Citizen's panel.

RIMLS awards festival Twelve winners

16 January 2019

In 5 categories RIMLS young researchers received an award and bonus during the New Year's drinks. See all photo's.

René Vogels Stichting travel grant for Pieter Roelofs

4 December 2018

Pieter Roelofs received the award in order to perform a work visit to prof. Reuben Harris’ lab at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Royal Decoration awarded to Koos van der Hoeven

8 November 2018

On Thursday 1 November at 5:30 pm, a Royal Decoration was awarded to Koos van der Hoeven, Professor of Medical Oncology, in the Aula of Radboud University.

Mark van den Boogaard received the Dr. Peter Moleman penning

18 October 2018

Last week Mark van den Boogaard received the Dr. Peter Moleman penning for best article in the field of psycho-pharmacy published in the last 2 years.

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