NWO Vidi grants for 10 experienced UvA and Amsterdam UMC researchers
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to ten researchers from the UvA and the Academic Medical Center (AMC-UvA, part of Amsterdam UMC). The recipients are: Camiel Boon, Efstratios Gavves, Joppe Hovius, Arno Kret, Dora Matzke, Judith Noorman, Pim van Ooij, Guus Regts, Josje Verhagen and Susanne Wilken. The researchers will each receive 800,000 euros, with which they can develop their own innovative lines of research and set up research groups over the next five years. A total of 81 Vidi grants were awarded in this round from a total of 503 applications. The recipients. Prof. Camiel Boon (Amsterdam UMC, AMC location): Developing cutting-edge treatments to combat early hereditary blindness X-linked juvenile retinoschisis (XLRS) is a relatively common hereditary eye disease, for which there is no treatment. XLRS causes severe vision loss or even blindness in childhood. I will develop a cure for XLRS in experimental models that mimic the disease, based on patient-specific stem cells and an animal model. Dr Efstratios Gavves (Instituut voor Informatica): Video is everywhere: in our phones, on Netflix or even in MRI. Today's AI finds it hard to understand time in videos, making them unfit for future applications like autonomous driving or guiding medical devices and treatments. Prof. Joppe Hovius (Amsterdam UMC, AMC location): Ticked off?
