150e patient geïncludeerd in DIST
Dec 2024
Afgelopen maand is de 150e patiënt geïncludeerd in de DIST (Dutch ICH Surgery TRIAL), wat betekent dat ze over de 25% van het beoogd aantal studiedeelnemers zitten!
Een mooie prestatie van dit hard werkende team! Gefeliciteerd!
Last month, the 150th patient was included in the DIST (Dutch ICH Surgery TRIAL), which means they included over 25% of the study participants! A beautiful achievement from this hard working team! Congratulations!
Life time award for professor Gert Kwakkel
On Wednesday 4 December, Professor of Neurorehabilitation Gert Kwakkel received the prestigious ‘Princess Margaret Memorial Lecture Award’, a kind of ‘lifetime achievement award’ for his scientific research in the field of stroke. After receiving the ‘award letter’ made by Margaret’s son ‘Lord Snowdon’, of the British Royal Family, he delivered a plenary lecture at the UK Stroke Forum Congress (UKSF) in Liverpool in front of a large audience. The UKSF is the largest multidisciplinary platform for stroke researchers and practitioners. (For more information on the conference, see https://www.stroke.org.uk/professionals/uk-stroke-forum)
Successful Young Talent meeting
On Thursday October 3rd, the CONTRAST2 young talents gathered in Utrecht for an educational afternoon program including a presentation on valorisation and a workshop on time management. After this intellectual endeavour they were rewarded with a nice pizza and drinks.
It was great to see so many of our hard-working PhD students coming together to share knowledge and spend time together.
Publication 2 year follow up MR CLEAN LATE
In September, in Lancet Neurology, a paper is published discussing the results of the 2-year follow up of the MR CLEAN LATE study.
We want to congratulate all authors with this publication!
Huijberts I, Pinckaers FME, Olthuis SGH, van Kuijk SMJ, Postma AA, Boogaarts HD, Roos YBWEM, Majoie CBLM, van der Lugt A, Dippel DWJ, van Zwam WH, van Oostenbrugge RJ; MR CLEAN-LATE investigators.Lancet Neurol. 2024 Sep;23(9):893-900
Multiple PhD defences
Multiple people within our CONTRAST network will soon defend their thesis:
On Friday September 27th, at 16:00 in the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam, Natalie LeCouffe, who performed work on the de MR CLEAN NO IV, will defend her thesis ‘Refining Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke’.
On September 30th in Nijmegen, Lotte Sondag (PhD student and coordinating researcher of the DIST pilot study) will defend her thesis entitled ‘Towards new acute treatments for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages: The role of surgery and perihematomal edema’.
On October 1st, at 14:15, in the academiegebouw in Utrecht, Bart Franx, working within WP1, will defend his thesis on “Translational Neuroimaging of Cerebral Perfusion after Acute Ischemic Stroke”
We wish them all best of luck!
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Young Talent Travel Grants awarded
July 2024
In May, we opened the first round of the CONTRAST2 Young Talent Travel Grants, which gives young CONTRAST researchers the opportunity to go abroad for two months to establish a collaboration.
We received many excellent applications, which were carefully evaluated. Based on the available budget for this call, we were able to fund three projects.
We congratulate Abel Sandmann, Bart Franx and Shan Sui Nio on their grants and look forward to seeing the results of their projects.
Next year in May, we will open another call for these Young Talent Travel Grants and encourage all young researchers with an idea for a project to submit their proposal.
Invitation fifth NESA symposium November 27th
We cordially invite you to attend the fifth symposium of the Netherlands Experimental Stroke Alliance (NESA) on November 27th in the TechMed Centre at the University of Twente, Enschede. The final program is attached below. We are confident that the program holds potential to inspire both fundamental and clinical researchers, and facilitate collaborations.
To register, please send an email to i.mulder1@amsterdamumc.nl
Looking forward to meeting you all in Enschede,
The NESA board,
Jeannette Hofmeijer, Rick Dijkhuizen, Inge Mulder and Maximilian Wiesmann
100th patient included in DIST
June 4th 2024
Yesterday, the 100th patient was inducted into the DIST! What a milestone we have achieved together. We would like to thank everyone for their efforts in the study. On to the next 100!
Kind regards,
The DIST team!
Fabiano Cavalcante wins 2024-Ziedses des Plantes Philips price
On May 29th, 2024, Fabiano Cavalcante has won the 2024-Ziedses des Plantes Philips price. Each year, Philips, together with the NVIR, presents the Ziedses des Plantes-Philips Prize to two individuals who have completed the best research in the field of Radiological Imaging and Oncological Intervention Techniques. Fabiano is a PhD student, working within WP3c. He received this award for his work within IRIS on “Intravenous thrombolysis before endovascular treatment in patients with carotid tandem lesions: individual participant data meta-analysis”.
A big round of applause and congratulations to Fabiano for this amazing work!
CONTRAST2 annual meeting
Monday April 15th we gathered for the CONTRAST annual meeting in Leiden. It was amazing to learn about the progress made and to see the collaboration between the disciplins and workpackages really taking off! Together we work on improving the outcome of patients with acute stroke.
