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.

21 January 2013 » Grants

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 » Grants

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”.

27 November 2012 » Grants

Nick Ramsey, Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience (Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht) will receive a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant of € 2.5 million. With his project iCONNECT: Intracranial COnnection with Neural Networks for Enabling Communication, Prof. Ramsey aims to give severely paralyzed people the means to communicate by merely imagining to talk or make hand gestures.

31 October 2012 » Grants

Dr. Ieneke van der Ham (Dept. of Experimental Psychology) and Dr. Anne Visser-Meily (Dept. of Rehabilitation, Nursing Sciences and Sport) have received a grant from the “Revalidatiefonds”. The goal of their researchproject is to develop a navigation training using virtual reality.

2 October 2012 » Grants

Anne Visser-Meily (Dept. of Rehabilitation, Nursing Sciences and Sport, Rudolf Magnus Institute) has received a grant from Stichting Achmea Gezondheidzorg for her researchproject: motivation for rehabilitation (MORE).

1 October 2012 » Grants

Prof. Dr. Frank Backx and his research team (Dept. of Rehabilitaion, Nursing Science and Sport) have received a grant from ZonMW for their research into hamstring injuries.

5 September 2012 » Grants

Manon Mulckhuyse (Dept. of Experimental Psychology) has received a VENI grant for her project: “Emotional modulation of visual selection as a function of time”.

28 August 2012 » Grants

Dr. Leon Kenemans, Dr. Marcel van den Hout and Dr. Iris Engelhard (Dept. of Social Sciences) have received a 2 year grant for their research project “Plasticity of fear memory, noradrenaline and EMDR”.

6 August 2012 » Grants

Martijn Barendregt (Dept. of Psychology) has won a MaGW grant for a three year AIO position with Dr. Serge Dumoulin and Dr. Frans Verstraten. Title of the research project is: “Uncovering the neural circuitry underlying the perception of motion in depth”.

1 August 2012 » Grants