Grants given to young academics have a multi layered effect; they can bring innovative research results in the exact direction the institute is aiming for; they often bring new, multidisciplinary research collaboration, and can give young aspiring academics the push they want in their career.
Kaj Emanuel on his tenure development grant 2022
Kaj Emanuel
The aim of the grant was to launch a new research line on the etiology of osteochondral defects (bone and cartilage damage) of the ankle. This topic is one of the clinical focus points of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. By combining the expertise from different groups within AMS, we hope to unravel the disease process, and use this knowledge to improve the treatment of the patients.
Personally, this grant has allowed me to migrate back to Amsterdam to take on a full-time position at our department, running this project. My role has been to bridge the gap between clinical practice and research, utilizing the biological and biomechanical expertise available both within and outside of AMS.
To achieve this, we started research projects with the Bone and Calcium Metabolism laboratory of Nathalie Bravenboer, to analyze the biopsies from osteochondral defect patients. I also initiated a gait analysis project with the department of rehabilitation medicine, led by Wouter Schallig and Marjolein van der Krogt. Together, we will study how the biology and biomechanics interact in the development of osteochondral defects. In addition to these projects, I initiated several consortium grant applications, including the NWO open competition with AMS partners and Maastricht University, and an NWA KIC call with several national partners. Several other applications are on the role for the remainder of the grant period (until the end 2023).
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AMS Laureates 2022
| Name researcher | Type grant | Project title | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports program | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | €80.000 |
| Musculoskeletal Health program | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | €80.000 |
| Tissue Function & Regeneration program | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | €80.000 |
| Ageing & Vitallity program | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | €80.000 |
| Rehabilitation & Development program | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | €80.000 |
| Mylene Duivenvoorden | Musculoskeletal Health grant: International collaboration | Diagnostic delay of Giant Cell Tumors of the Bone | €10.000 |
| Julian Hollander | Musculoskeletal Health grant: International collaboration | Cartilage lesions of the ankle: individualized treatment using artificial intelligence | €14.000 |
| Madhu Soares Filho | Musculoskeletal Health grant: International collaboration | A multifactorial approach on the treatment of anterior shoulder instability | €14.000 |
| Yuge Zhang | Musculoskeletal Health grant: International collaboration | Standardized and daily life gait stability measures to evaluate healthy and pathological ageing | €10.000 |
| Kaj Emanuel | Tissue Function & Regeneration grant | Forming a multi-disciplinary research line to unravel the etiolopgy of osteochondral defects in the ankle | €60.000 |
| Zhong Wenchao | Tissue Function & Regeneration grant | Characterisation of the underlying mechanism of PLS3-mediated osteoporosis | €4.000 |
| Marijke de Leeuwerk | Ageing & Vitality grant | Computer Tomography determined sarcopenia and physical functioning in lung cancer patients | €20.000 |
| Marike van der Schaaf | Ageing & Vitality grant | Rehabilitation After Critical Illness and Hospital discharge- Optimizig Units of nutrition and Exercise Therapy; REACH-OUT pilot feasibility trial | €20.000 |
| Joost den Dool | Rehabilitation & Development grant | Associations between CPET and Talk Test in patients with Central Neurological Disorders - A clinimetric pilot study | €10.000 |
| Fieke Koopman | Rehabilitation & Development grant | Balancing energy expenditure and energy intake in people with neuromuscular diseases; next steps towards individualized nutritional advice | €40.000 |
| Wouter Schallig | Rehabilitation & Development grant | FABIO: Foot and Ankle Biomechanics and Imaging to improve Orthopedic foot interventions in children with cerebral palsy | €40.000 |
| Juultje Sommers | Rehabilitation & Development grant | Novel approach for assessment of metabolic load during ICU rehabilitation; evaluating the lactate response. | €10.000 |
| Eric Voorn | Rehabilitation & Development grant | Unraveling reduced exercise capacity in neuromuscular diseases using state-of-theart magnetic resonance imaging | €40.000 |
| Niels Waterval | Rehabilitation & Development grant | Gait exploration training, a prerequisite to benefit from ankle-foot orthoses? | €10.000 |
| Carel Meskers | Investment grant | Proposal Shoulder-Elbow Pertubator (SEP) | €40.000 |
| Ronald van Vollenhoven | Investment grant | FLIR T 560 thermograph with lenses | €34.000 |
| Moritz Eggelbusch | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | Neuromuscular electrical stimulation to enhance the exercise benefits for muscle functions during spaceflight | €5.000 |
| Niels Klop | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | Statistical growth modelling of the mandible for forensic, orthodontic and clinical purposes | €5.000 |
| Kevin Kooi | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | Creating a machine learning algorithm to predict revision surgery for trapeziometacarpal arthritis. | €5.000 |
| Sietske Luijten | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | TIPAS – alternatives for data analysis | €5.000 |
| Faezeh Mohammadi Sanjani | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | Developing nonlinear measures of variability in martial arts | €5.000 |
| Babette Mooijekind | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | Application of US-transparent EMG electrodes to simultaneously measure muscle-tendon behavior and activation of the medial gastrocnemius during gait in children with cerebral palsy | €5.000 |
| Susanne Rauh | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | Improved diagnosis and characterization of muscle injury and disease using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods | €4.300 |
| Tim Veneman | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | Novel approach for indirect assessment of the anaerobic threshold in neuromuscular diseases: building a predictive model using easy-to-obtain exercise testing parameters | €5.000 |
| Lukas Verweij | Dare-to-Dream PhD grant | Influence of postoperative Hill-Sachs occupancy and glenoid bone loss on glenoid track measurements and clinical outcome following the arthroscopic Bankart repair with remplissage and open Latarjet | €5.000 |
| Ellen Breedveld | RMA-student grant | Microclots accumulation and viral persistence in skeletal muscles of patients with post COVID-19 condition | €3.000 |
| Tijn van Rietschoten | RMA-student grant | Oxygen uptake kinetics in moderate and heavy exercise in upright and supine position | €3.000 |
| Thalia Zamora Gomez | RMA-student grant | Can physical inactivity stimulate the production and release of FGF21 and GDF15 in skeletal muscle in mice? | €3.000 |