Amsterdam Movement Sciences Research Institute has since its launch in 2017 had numerous calls aimed at its researchers. During the initial period, the aim of the grants was to stimulate and initiate multidisciplinary research collaboration between researchers at our partners from Amsterdam UMC, ACTA and VU Amsterdam.
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.
We are pleased to announce that the first research grants for 2026 have been secured.
AMS Laureates 2026
| Name researcher | Type grant | Project title | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports program | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | € 80.000 |
| Pim van Klij | Sports Talent call | Building a National Clinical and Research Consortium for Female Athlete Health: Uniting All Dutch Women’s Premier League Football Clubs | € 20.000 |
| Onur Tezel | Sports Collaboration Grant | Cocreating an injury monitoring dashboard for Paralympic wheelchair sports | €15.000 |
| Thomas Baltes | Sports program training visit | Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports medicine Hospital in Doha, Qatar. | € 2.000 |
| Tom Wormhoudt | Sports program Conference visit | ESSKA 2026, in Prague, the Czech Republic | € 875 |
| Elou Kingma | Sports program Conference visit | FESS-EFSHT Conference in Basel, Switzerland | € 2.000 |
| Pfeifeng Zheng | Sports program Conference visit | European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy Congress 2026 | € 1.600 |
| Alice Micale | Sports program Conference visit | XVlII Congress of Sport & Exercise Psychology (FEPSAC), in Timisoara, Romania | € 1.000 |
| Minke van de Kamp | Sports program Conference visit | the 4th International Conference on Sports Psychiatry in Bern, Switzerland | € 624 |
| Koen Zwetsloot | Sports program Conference visit | BRMEC 15 in Cambridge, UK | € 400 |
| Timo van den Bogaard | Sports program Conference visit | International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics (ICEE) 2026 in Kuching, Malaysia | € 1.959 |
| Anouk Slaghekke | Sports program Conference visit | BRMEC 15 in Cambridge, UK | € 400 |
| Ilona Fassaert | Sports program training visit | University of Zurich, UZH, in Switzerland | € 1.700 |
| Elze Geurts | Sports program Conference visit | ESSKA 2026, in Prague, the Czech Republic | € 2.000 |
| Rijk Dersjant | Sports program Conference visit | 4th European Paediatric Physiotherapy Congress 2026 (EUPPT) in Stockholm, Sweden | € 1.440 |
| Arjen Pelgröm | Sports program Conference visit | American Thoracic Society Conference 2026, in Orlando, FL | € 2.000 |
| Anastasia Sclocco | Sports program Conference visit | 2026 Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Global Learning Conference in Dallas, TX | € 1.765 |
| Musculoskeletal Health | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | € 80.000 |
| Joris Oonk | Musculoskeletal Health Grant writing call 2026 | Building a digital twin of the radiocarpal- and distal radioulnar joint using multimodal imaging | € 10.000 |
| George Buijs | Musculoskeletal Health Grant writing call 2026 | If it isn’t Loose, don’t Fix it: Improving Diagnostic Accuracy in Total Knee Arthroplasty loosening | € 10.000 |
| Tissue function & regeneration | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | € 80.000 |
| Ivo Lutke Schipholt | Tissue Function & Regeneration Talent call | BRAIN-RA Pilot: Imaging Neuroinflammation to Understand Persistent Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis | € 20.000 |
| Jari Dahmen | Tissue Function & Regeneration Talent call | Molecular Phenotyping of Subchondral Bone Cysts in Ankle: A Precision Medicine Approach toPredicting Success (or not!) | € 30.000 |
| Ageing & Vitality | Program investment | Program strengthening activities | € 80.000 |
| Dax Houtkamp | Ageing & Vitality: Biological Ageing call | Are metabolic signatures of physical inactivity signs of accelerated aging? | €18.500 |
| Herbert van Essen | Ageing & Vitality: Biological Ageing call | Targeting biological age acceleration through a hospital-based lifestyle front office: a secondary analysis of the LOFIT study | €29.900 |
| Lidiia Zhytnik & Anne van der Spek | Talent committe: From the Lab to the Clinic collaboration call | STRONG: A New Osteoclast-Targeted Therapy Strategy for Genetic Bone Fragility | €15.000 |
| Sanne Ettema & Remco Baggen | Talent committe: From the Lab to the Clinic collaboration call | DIABALANCE-IMU: In-clinic measurement of balance control in people with peripheral neuropathy | €15.000 |
| Yi Ding | Tissue Function & Regeneration call to finance lab access / travel expenses | 2026 American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Conference, Seattle, USA | €3.600 |
| Ton Schoenmaker | Tissue Function & Regeneration call to finance lab access / travel expenses | European Calcified Tissue Society Conference in Barcelona, Spain | €1.100 |
| Myrthe Simon | Tissue Function & Regeneration call to finance lab access / travel expenses | International Society of Burn Injuries Conference in Santiago, Chile | €3.500 |