Veni Grant for Medical Delta Researcher

The NWO (Dutch Research Council) has awarded Veni funding of up to €320,000 to 174 promising researchers across various scientific fields. The laureates will be able to further develop their research ideas over the next three years. Among them is dr. ir. Jason Voorneveld (Erasmus MC), a consortium member of the Medical Delta scientific program UltraHB: Ultrafast Ultrasound for the Heart and Brain.

The Veni is an individual research grant, part of the NWO Talent Program, aimed at researchers who have recently completed their PhDs. These researchers will conduct studies across the full spectrum of science.

Voorneveld’s research project is titled "Tetralogy of Fallot in 4D: Superfast 3D Echocardiography for Measuring Blood Flow Patterns." Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital heart defect. In young heart patients with corrected Tetralogy of Fallot, blood often leaks back through the pulmonary valve, which can lead to heart failure at an early age. Doctors and researchers do not yet fully understand how this occurs, but they believe that measuring the four-dimensional blood flow patterns in the heart (across three spatial dimensions plus time) could provide clarity. In this project, Voorneveld is developing a new superfast ultrasound technique that can safely measure these blood flow patterns in these young patients. This will allow researchers to analyze how valve leakage leads to heart failure, enabling doctors to improve their clinical decisions and surgical interventions.

Veni Grants for Diverse Research

The funded projects cover a wide range of topics: from the use of algorithms and AI in criminal law to the role of gut bacteria in mental health, from correcting quantum errors in a Sherlock Holmes-like manner to the distribution of colonial profits in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1860.

The 174 grants from the 2023 Veni round are distributed as follows: 53 in Exact and Natural Sciences (ENW), 69 in Social Sciences and Humanities (SGW), 25 in Applied and Technical Sciences (TTW), and 27 grants in Health Research and Development (ZonMw).

Read more about this year’s awards.

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