Neuroscience & Cognition Utrecht is an umbrella organization, to unite education and research in the field of Neuroscience and Cognition, within Utrecht University and the University Medical Centre Utrecht.

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10 April 2013

Dr. Jeroen Pasterkamp (UMCU, Dept. of Neuroscience and Pharmacology) has been appointed as Professor of Translational Neuroscience per April 1st.

10 April 2013

Dr. Geert Ramakers (UMCU, Dept. of Neurocience and Pharmacology) received the Lecturer of the Year Award during the “Studenten-en-Prijzen Parade” on April 4th.

21 January 2013

Dr. Jan Veldink (UMCU Dept. of Neurology) and his research group received a grant from E-Rare (European Research Area) for PYRAMID, a European project (Germany and Belgium) that studies the varying degrees of ALS.

11 December 2012

Dr. Karin Klijn (UMCU Dept. of Neurology) received a personal grant as “Clinical Established Investigator” from the Nederlandse Hartstichting enabling her to concentrate on researching the causes of cerebral hemmorrhage.

11 December 2012

Jorn Fierstra PhD (UMCU Dept. of Neurosurgery) received the Massima Collice Award for the best publication in the field of neurovascular shunts during the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Chicago.

27 November 2012

Prof. Dr. Iris Sommer (UMCU Dept. of Psychiatry) received 2 grants from the Stanley Foundation for her research projects: “Prednisolone augmenation for patients with recent onset schizophrenia” and “Simvastatin augmentation for recent onset schizophrenia”.

13 November 2012

Joanna Schaafsma (Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery) received the Lourens Penning Prize 2012 for the best publication in the field of Neuroradiology for her thesis: ‘The diagnostic performance of MR angiography after coiling of intracranial aneurysms’.

13 November 2012

Maryse van ‘t Klooster (Dept. Neurology and Neurosurgery) has been awarded the Rudolf Magnus Research Prize for her publication: Time-frequency analysis of single pulse electrical stimulation to assist delineation of epileptogenic cortex’.

13 November 2012

Maeike Zijlmans (Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery) has been awarded with the De Kleine-Magnus thesis award for her thesis: ‘New presurgical methods to characterize the focus of epilepsy’.

31 October 2012

Prof. Dr. Berend Olivier (Dept. of Science, UU) has received the Dr. Saal van Zwanenburg prize 2012, a prestigious bi-yearly prize for exeptional preformance in the field of pharmaceutical research. Prof. Olivier is co-discoverer of the antidepressant fluvoxamine; his research focusses on neurobiology and aggression, anxiety disorders, depression and schizophrenia.

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