Prizes
Prizes
Each year, three prizes are awarded to talented and innovative researchers within the UMC Utrecht Brain Center.
Rudolf Magnus Research Award uitklapper, klik om te openen
The Brain Center Rudolf Magnus awards a prize to the best publication of the preceding year. Eligible are those papers of whom the first author was affiliated with the Brain Center at the time that the work was performed. The ceremony of the Rudolf Magnus Research Award takes place during the annual BCRM Symposium.
Recipients of the Rudolf Magnus Research Award
2019 Paul Ormel and Renata Vieira de Sá
Microglia innately develop within cerebral organoids
2018 Jeroen Verharen
A neuronal mechanism underlying decision-making deficits during hyperdopaminergic states
2017 Wouter van Rheenen
Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
2016 Susan van Erp
Lrig2 Negatively Regulates Ectodomain Shedding of Axon Guidance Receptors by ADAM Proteases
2015 Angela Sarabdjitsingh
Ultradian corticosterone pulses balance glutamatergic transmission and synaptic plasticity
2014 Ben Harvey
Topographic representation of numerosity in the human parietal cortex
2013 Kim Boshuisen
Timing of antiepileptic drug withdrawal and long-term seizure outcome after paediatric epilepsy surgery (TimeToStop): a retrospective observational study
De Kleijn & Magnus Prize and Brain Center thesis award uitklapper, klik om te openen
This prize awards the best thesis of the year. The even years this award is given in collaboration with ‘De Stichting De Kleijn & Magnus Prijs’ and the award goes to the best thesis in Clinical Neuroscience written by a MD. The odd years the award goes to the best thesis in Utrecht Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience written by a non-MD. Most of the work reported in the thesis in both cases should have been performed in the Brain Center. The prize winner is announced during the Brain Center Symposium.
Recipients of De Kleijn & Magnus Award
2019 Jeroen Verharen
Neuroeconomic Mechanisms of Reward and Aversion
2018 Oliver Härschnitz
iPSC-derived insights into motor neuron disease and inflammatory neuropathies
2018 Nina Hilkens
Bleeding on antithrombotic treatment in secondary stroke prevention
2017 Chantal Tax
Less confusion in diffusion MRI
2016 Guusje Collin
The connectomic blueprint of schizophrenia
2014 Bart Brouwers
Continued bleeding following acute intracerebral hemorrhage
2012 Maeike Zijlmans
New presurgical methods to characterize the focus of epilepsy
The Brain Center outreach award: ‘De Hoofdprijs’ uitklapper, klik om te openen
The Brain Center awards the employee of the Brain Center whom has addressed the significance of his or her work best to the general (lay) public with ‘De Hoofdprijs’. The award is open to all working in the Neurosciences within the UMC Utrecht, from nurse till professor. The award is granted by a jury consisting of the management team of the Brain Center and the prize winner is announced during the annual Brain Center Research Day.
Recipients of Brain Center outreach award
2019 Wim Otte
For implementing an educational program to recognize and treat epilepsy in Nigeria
2018 Barbara van Ede-Korpel
2017 Marjolijn Ketelaar
For her work together with the patient society BOSK to make the patient a real partner in research.
2016 Iris Sommer
For her book “Haperende Hersenen”