Each year, ACS organizes grant rounds for the Postdoc grant (€140,000/70,000), MD/PhD grant (€25,000) and Nursing Research grant (€25,000).
The Postdoc and MD/PhD grants are for excellent young basic and clinical researchers, respectively, and aim to support talented ACS researchers. The Postdoc grant had three options this year for the first time. Current ACS researchers could apply for a project abroad or inside ACS, or an external researcher could apply for a position inside ACS. The MD/PhD grant covers one day a week protected research time for a two-year post-doctoral project for medical specialists in training. The Nursing Research grant was introduced in 2021 and allows nurses with a Master’s degree to have 1.5 day a week protected research time in order to prepare a PhD trajectory in the cardiovascular field in combination with clinical duties as a nurse.
Congratulations to all awardees!
PostDoc Grant
Chantal van Opbergen
2 years. DNA damage and loss of nuclear envelope integrity as triggers of sudden cardiac death in the young
Melany Rios Morales
1 year. Unraveling fructose catabolism: intestinal fructose-driven gluconeogenesis as an anti-obesity mechanism
MD-PhD Grants
Sex- and ethnic specific metabolism of dietary acid load in chronic kidney disease and cardio-metabolic disease
Jeroen Wessels
The right heart phenotype and clinical outcomes in pulmonary hypertension
Nursing Research Grant
Lieke Kuitert
The Effect of Virtual Reality on Preoperative Anxiety in Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients