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.

10 April 2013 » Awards

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.

11 December 2012 » Awards

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 » Awards

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 » Awards

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’.

13 November 2012 » Awards

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.

31 October 2012 » Awards

Nathan van der Stoep (AIO, Dept. of Psychology) has won a Travel Award for his abstract and poster: “Exploring space: Dissociations and interactions between neglect in near and far space”, which he presented during the International Neuropsychological Society Congress in Oslo.

1 August 2012 » Awards

Renée Walhout (dept. Neurology and Neurosurgery) has received a prize for the best presentation at the European ALS symposium (ENCLAS).

19 June 2012 » Awards

Two ENCP poster awards

Angela Sarabdjitsingh and Leonie de Visser, dept. Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute, UMC Utrecht have received the poster award at the Young Scientsist meeting of the ECNP in Nice.  They also received a scholarship to attend the  ECNP congress 2012 in Vienna.

23 March 2012 » Awards

Thesis award for Maeike Zijlmans

Maeike Zijlmans of the dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the UMC Utrecht, Rudolf Magnus Institute, has received the ‘Hersenstichting’ Trofee 2012 for her thesis:  ”New presurgical methods to characterize hte focus of epilepsy”.

16 March 2012 » Awards