Each year the Dutch Research Council (NWO) offers individual grants to talented, creative researchers with their Talent Scheme. This enables them to conduct the research of their choice. Since the Talent Scheme was set up in 2000, NWO has been able to offer grants to nearly two thousand talented researchers. The Talent Scheme has three funding instruments tailored to various phases in researchers' scientific careers.
Veni, Vidi, Vici
- Veni, for researchers who have recently graduated.
- Vidi, for experienced researchers who have already conducted several years of research after gaining their PhD.
- Vici, for senior researchers who have already demonstrated the ability to develop their own line of research.
The following Amsterdam Neuroscience affiliates have been awarded Veni, Vidi, Vidi grants by NWO.
2022
| Grant | Researcher | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Vici | Ingo Willuhn | The synergistic encoding of reward and aversion by dopamine and serotonin |
| Veni | Lisa Vermunt | Detecting failing star-shaped brain cells in Alzheimer's disease |
| Veni | Arthur Buijink | Personalized deep brain stimulation in patients with essential tremor |
| Veni | Laura Han | Understanding biological aging: the key to a healthier and happier life |
| Veni | Femke Feringa | Cell aging in Alzheimer's disease the key to therapy |
2021
| Grant | Researcher | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Vici | Erik Rietveld | Change-Ability for a World in Flux: The next step for an embodied cognitive science of brain-body-environment systems |
| Veni | Maartje de Jong | Studying how the brain generates visual experiences |
| Veni | Philip Jansen | Identifying targetable mechanisms of insomnia in brain aging and dementia |
| Vidi | Menno Schoonheim | The collapsing brain in MS: Using networks to predict clinical progression |
| Vidi | Henne Holstege | Spotlight on the neglected genome to escape dementia |
| Vidi | Rik van der Kant | Improving lipid metabolism to treat Alzheimer's disease |
| Vidi | Natalia Goriounova | Fast neurons of our cognition |
| Vidi | Priyanka Rao-Ruiz | Unraveling the synaptic code of memory |
2020
| Grant | Researcher | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Veni | Jeanne Savage | Multiple genetic pathways to alcohol misuse |
| Veni | Anita van Loenhoud | The brain's reserve capacity in Alzheimer's disease |
| Veni | Aishu Parthasarathy | The integrated neural code of action selection and action-outcome valence in the basal ganglia |
| Vidi | Christiaan Vinkers | Understanding the impact of childhood trauma in depression |
| Vidi | Betty Tijms | Strong brain connections for resilience to dementia |
| Vidi | Camiel Boon | Developing cutting-edge treatments to combat early hereditary blindness |
2019
| Grant | Researcher | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Veni | Marieke Meijer | Towards understanding developmental disorders at a cellular level |
| Vidi | Gijs Kooij | Unravelling how the natural process to restrain inflammation mechanism works to exploit it in the combat against chronic inflammatory disorders like multiple sclerosis (MS) |
| Vidi | Marc Engelen | Development of new surrogate outcome measures for clinical trials in adrenoleukodystrophy and possibly other neurodegenerative diseases affecting the spinal cord |
| Vidi | Linda Douw | BrainLayer: the multilayer brain networks underlying cognitive decline |
| Vici | Diederik van de Beek | Pioneering new treatment for bacterial meningitis |
2018
| Grant | Researcher | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Veni | Anouk Schrantee | The brain’s response to medication: zooming in with pharmacological MRI |
| Veni | Wouter Peyrot | What causes depression? |
| Veni | Marianna Bugiani | The blood-brain barrier in Vanishing white matter: filling a knowledge gap |
| Vidi | Nathan Marchant | The underlying neurobiology of two critical aspects of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) |
| Vidi | Rogier Min | Study how a disturbed balance of salts and water in the brain leads to neurological diseases |
2017
| Grant | Researcher | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Vidi | Odile van den Heuvel | Project on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) focusing on the interaction between brain, behaviour and environment |
| Vidi | Matthijs Brouwer | Research aimed at revealing the causes of brain inflammation |
2016
| Grant | Researcher | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Veni | Natalia Goriounova | What is unique about human brain cells? |
| Veni | Priyanka Rao-Ruiz | The role of inhibition in shaping hippocampal memory traces |
| Veni | Hein van Marle | Sleep off your trauma |
| Veni | Laurens Witter | Do the pontine nuclei form the heart of voluntary motor control? |
| Veni | Mirjam van Zuiden | Why do traumatic memories keep on intruding? |
| Vidi | Michel van den Oever | Molecular insight into alcohol addiction |