AMS News

Save the date: Inaugural Lecture of Hans Tol

The inaugural lecture of Hans Tol has been postponed to June 11, 2021 at 4 pm (instead of Sept 4, 2020). Hans Tol has been appointed as the first full professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Amsterdam. The appointment will be celebrated with the Sports Congress Getting Better. A selection of speakers: Erik Witvrouw, Per Hölmich, Guus Reurink, Gino Kerkhoffs, Evert Verhagen, Harald Jørstad, Mario Maas.

The Predict Database (COVID-19)

The predict database is an initiative by the COVID predict group, and is currently led by Martijn Beudel. The database contains data from 2400 patients, and the information harvested is based on the WHO CRF, and is carried out in 11 Dutch hospitals, including Amsterdam UMC using using Castor and Pacmed. The database is used for predicting the clinical course of COVID-19 using machine learning and algorithms based on data gathered on patients’ medical history, situation when admitted to hospital and clinical course after admittance. It also contains a vast information on motor behaviour and movement disorders, and should be of interest to AMS researchers. Access to the database can currently be requested via dr. Beudel (m.beudel@amsterdamumc.nl with a cc to ams@vu.nl). The proposal must comply with the WMO protocol, and Predict’s DPIA, and if granted access, a datasharing agreement must be signed.
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CWO approval for research protocols at location VUmc per direct abandoned
As per direct, the CWO approval for ‘WMO-plichtig’ research protocols that was compulsory at location VUmc has been abandoned. As of now, all ‘WMO-plichtig’ research protocols from Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, should be submitted directly to the METC. More information.

Save the Date:

INJURIES ARE THE BEST TEACHERS

How Do Athletes Cope With Injury &
What This Means For Optimal Care

July 3, 2020

09.30am - 11.30am

Central European Time
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A link on You Tube of the Friday Lecture Series of June 5, 2020 on COVID-19 & Elite Athletes is now available

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Nathalie Bravenboer New Head Tissue Function & Regeneration Research Program

Nathalie Bravenboer, Senior researcher in Bone Biology at Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc succeeds Richard Jaspers, who recently was appointed director of AMS. A central question in dr. Bravenboer’s research is: how can we increase bone strength with mechanical stress? The aim of the Tissue Function and Regeneration research program is to develop and combine (new) techniques to investigate musculoskeletal and skin tissue regeneration at different biological length scales, either isolated or integrated in a two-dimensional (2D) or 3D environment. To this end a network of clinicians, physiotherapists, basic scientists, and private partners will be created facilitating a multi-way traffic between fundamental and applied sciences to develop new interventions, biomaterials, as well as training and therapy.

Annelies Pool-Goudzwaard Appointed Endowed Professor

Annelies Pool-Goudzwaard has, by VU Executive Board, been appointed Endowed Professor to the chair Pelvic Physiotherapy at the department of Human Movement Sciences. Annelise Pool-Goudzwaard got her PhD in 2003 from Erasmus University where she worked alongside an appointment at the Spine & Joint Centre in Rotterdam. In 2015 she started working for VU, at the Faculty of Behaviour and Movement Sciences. She is part of the staff of the Master educational programme on Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. In addition, she is the head of the Bachelor of Science at Somt University of Physiotherapy. Annelies Pool-Goudzwaard has numerous publications in scientific journals with the main focus on the pelvic, pelvic girdle pain, low back pain and pelvic floor dysfunctions.

News in Times of COVID-19

Corona Reseach Fund Supports Research on Recovery COVID-19 patients

The Corona Research Fund of the Amsterdam UMC has awarded €50.000 for a research project aimed at gaining insight into the functional recovery of COVID-19 patients. Edwin Geleijn, Carel Meskers and Marike van der Leeden of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc), together with a team of data-scientists and ICF experts from VU/VUmc, will work on this project. The project has to answer the questions: How do patients with COVID-19 recover in their functioning, during and after hospitalization? And how can we best shape the rehabilitation of COVID-19 patients with knowledge about factors that influence this recovery? By collecting and analysing text data from electronic patient records of COVID-19 patients from hospitals, rehabilitation centres, nursing homes and first-line physiotherapists, the research team expects to get answers to these questions.

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Amsterdam UMC Run Virtual Edition
PICS (Post Intensive Care Syndrome) has been the charity of the Amsterdam UMC Run for several years, and is more topical than ever because of COVID-19. This year a virtual run has been organized to support the care of PICS-Patients. A 5 or 10 km run or walk can be chosen in your own neighborhood between June 21 - 30, 2020. Registration: from May 24 - June 20. Participation: from June 21 - 30 on a 5 or 10 km course of your choice. Costs: € 7,50. For this you will receive a (digital) number bib, a participants app, certificate, medal and classification. Share your participation via social media and win great prizes! More information.

Agreement on Open Access

The agreement between VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier on open access and open science represents an important step in making science accessible. VSNU, the Dutch Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), NWO and Elsevier have partnered on open access and open science. Agreements were made on publishing and reading of Dutch scientific articles (open access). In addition, a joint development of open science services was agreed on. The partnership runs until the end of 2024. Publications by Dutch scientists are made available full text in an Open Knowledge Base. The full agreement can be found here.

Calls

Call Incentive Grants for Women in STEM open
Inclusion and diversity are important to science, both in terms of its quality and impact. In the Netherlands, women only make up a small percentage of the workforce in many science and engineering disciplines. For that reason, NWO opens the call Incentive Grants for Women. Within the STEM program, NWO will support women who are temporarily without funding but who have good prospects of obtaining a permanent or more senior research position in science or the engineering sciences. Deadline: December 30, 2020. More information.

Call for Nominations Novo Nordisk Prize

The Novo Nordisk Prize is awarded to an active scientist that has provided outstanding research or technological contributions that have advanced our understanding of human health and disease, the prevention, the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The prize is awarded for a predominantly European contribution and consists of an amount for the awardee’s research (DKK 4.5 million) and a personal award (DKK 0.5 million). An additional part of the Prize (DKK 0.5 million) is for hosting an international symposium within the awardee’s field of research. Awardees must have made an important contribution to European Biomedical Science. They must have a current position and an active research program at a public or non-profit research institution in a European country. Nominations must be submitted electronically. Deadline:June 19, 2020, 16:00. You can contact Pernille Julø Risegaard, Senior Administrator by email. (+45) 35 27 66 03. Further information.

Scientific Meetings

Webinar COVID-19: Antivirals & Vaccines Against SARS-CoV-2
The research institute Amsterdam Infection & Immunity Institute (AI&II) organizes a webinar with a general COVID-19 update by Menno de Jong followed by an update of Martin Grobusch on the ongoing remdesivir clinical trial. Arjan Griffioen will speak about his research on a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and Hans Zaaijer will give an update on his COVID-19 antibody survey. Click for more information and to register. Date: June 25, 2020, 15:00 hrs.

PhD News

Science Transmission Meeting #27

Translation of science into practice; 1+1=3? How can scientists best convey their findings to lay-people? And reversely, what may practitioners from the field think when we share our research findings with them? Maybe it is difficult to communicate with non-scientists? During this Science Transmission meeting Raôul Oudejans will share his experience from working as a scientist with TeamNL, police officers, and other situations where he translates science into practice. The meeting will take place via Zoom. Please note meeting day and time as it is different from usual! Date: June 15, 2020, 13.00-14.00. Venue: Zoom. Meeting ID: 478 803 2645. Password: 864922. Chair: Tammie van Biemen.

How to protect your invention? Patents and other means to safeguard inventions

Suppose you came up with a unique invention or innovation. Of course, you don't want someone else to run off with it. How do you actually protect an invention and what are the benefits of patenting? Do you need to patent before publishing and what are the criteria for patentability? Attend this webinar organized by IXA, if you want these and other questions to be answered. Date: June 25, 2020. 10:00-11:30u via Zoom. More information and registration.

Research Ethics Course
After completining this course, PhD Candidates know the central ethical principles underlying responsible conduct of research, particularly when human subjects are involved. They know the legal rules as well as the ethical codes of the VSNU and professional organizations (e.g. NIP/NVO). Candidates are able to evaluate research (plans) by means of the ethical principles and can detect and reflect on ethical dilemmas in empirical research. Their disposition to follow the ethical principles in their own research has been strengthened. Costs: € 375. Note: always discuss with your supervisor before making any financial commitments. Register.

New Members

Suriani Saleng

I was raised in Indonesia, where I became fascinated in a broad range of topics including food nutrient, material or biomaterial for medication, energy, building and environment. I obtained my Master Degree in chemistry (Isolation, characterization and bioactivity secondary metabolites) and my Bachelor Degree (Chloramphenicol analysis of shrimp) in Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia. During and after my Master Degree, I gained more experience with biomaterial from marine projects, including function of biomaterial. In these projects I worked on isolation, characterization and anti-bacteria bioactivity tests of biomaterial. I also worked as a researcher on organic solar cells from Indonesian endemic plant’s dye. After my bachelor and before I took my Master, I did freelance work for non- formal educational program of Indonesia. Today my PhD project is Development of scaffolds with seaweed compound(s) for the repair of bony defects. This project will focus on seaweed-derived biomaterials to generate 3D-printed scaffolds. My VU supervisors are: professor Tim Forouzanfar en Marco Helder. The project is financed by MoRA Scholarship from Indonesia.

Upcoming PhD Graduations

12/6/2020: Kaij Treskes (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC): Immediate total-body CT scanning after severe trauma | 14:00;
19/6/2020: Eva Peper (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC): Accelerated cardiovascular flow MRI | 10:00;
26/6/2020: Axel Koopman (FGB): Biomechanical evaluation of exoskeletons for the prevention of Low-Back Pain | 13:45;
30/6/2020: Sezai Özkan (Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc): Injury of the Wrist | 15:45;
2/7/2020: Rok Cestnik (FGB): Inferring oscillatory dynamics from data | 11:45;
3/7/2020: Chantal Bakker (FGB): Hidden Potential Challenges of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Variables for the Prediction of Hand Function after Stroke | 9:45;
25/9/2020: Saskia Baltrusch (FGB): Lifting Success of Trunk Exoskeletons. Bridging the gap between biomechanical solutions and end-users’ perceptions | tba;
7/10/2020: Tim van Kernebeek (FGB): GYMMERMANSOOG, Quantification of Gross Motor Skills within the Physical Education Setting | 15:45;
20/10/2020: Dafydd Visscher (Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc) Cartilage Tissue Engineering For Facial Reconstructive Surgery | Main Building | Aula | VU
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Use of Affiliations AMS

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