Symposium 2024

CARIM symposium 2024 took place on Wednesday 27 November 2024.

Missed it or want to relive (part of) the day? https://youtube.com/live/GfGAbXgPgIs?feature=share or download the pictures from UMployee.

Click here for the invitation flyer.

Programme

09.00 - 09.30 Coffee and welcome
09.30 - 10.00 Opening by Tilman Hackeng

SESSION 1 CARIM+HVC clinical care - Kevin Vernooy (moderator)

10.00 - 10.20 Bas van Bussel - ‘To look more precisely’
10.20 - 10.40 Elham Bidar - ‘A song of ice and fire’
10.40 - 11.00 Kristien Winckers - ‘On a multidisciplinary acute pulmonary embolism team’

11.00 - 11.30 Break

SESSION 2 Current laureates - Nynke van den Akker (moderator)

11.30 - 11.50 Matthijs Cluitmans - ‘P-values and T-waves: determining the risks of sudden cardiac
arrest and grant rejection’
11.50 - 12.10 Job Verdonschot - ‘Visualising the invisible in genetic cardiomyopathies’
12.10 - 12.30 Gerry Nicolaes - ‘Sepsis: CVD hidden in plain sight - Unveiling new frontiers in
precision care’

12.30 - 14.15 Poster session and lunch

SESSION 3 Moderator: Joost Lumens

14.15 - 15.05 Keynote Lecture: Hans Bruyninckx – ‘Human health in times of climate change’
15.05 - 15.25 Vanessa van Empel - ‘Pacing in HFpEF: CARIM+HVC team science’
15.25 - 15.40 Harry Crijns Research Grant (moderator: Harry Crijns)
(sponsored by Bayer, Amgen & Hart en vaat onderzoekfonds Limburg)

15.40 - 16.00 Break

SESSION 4 Robert Reneman Lecture - Paul Volders (moderator)

16.00 - 17.00 Kalyanam Shivkumar - ‘The issue is the tissue’
17.00 - 17.30 CARIM awards, CARIM Priori and wrap-up
17.30 Evening celebration: Thiessen Wijnkoopers, Grote Gracht 18 Maastricht

Recap and awards CARIM Day 2024

We are proud to reflect on the resounding success of CARIM Day 2024! The event featured outstanding scientific lectures from our recent laureates, an engaging CARIM+HVC clinical care session, and an inspiring keynote by Prof. Hans Bruyninckx on Human Health in Times of Climate Change.

Highlights also included the presentation by the Harry Crijns Research Grant winner and the Robert Reneman Lecture, titled 'The Tissue is the Issue', delivered by Prof. Kalyanam Shivkumar. The day concluded with the CARIM awards and prizes ceremony.

Eight HS-BAFTAs in the various categories were awarded:

• Talented postdoc: Victor Gonçalves Marques
• Talented PhD candidates: Femke de Vries, Pim Bouwmans, Floor Pinckaers, Elias Wieland, Anouk Achten, Guiliana Lezzoche and Juul Bierens

The CARIM Commitment Award of 2024 was awarded to Marc Hemmelder (Dept of Internal Medicine). A year ago, Marc jumped onto a runaway bus, and not only did he keep it on the road, but he also steered the Department of Internal Medicine back on course in an unparalleled and tireless manner. He brought colleagues back together, smoothed over conflicts, and successfully advocated with the Faculty Board and Executive Board for the continuation of The Maastricht Study. Not only has he been a unparalleled professional and diplomat, but he is also an incredibly kind and humble person.

The CARIM dissertation prize 2023 was awarded to Dr Uyen Chau Nguyen for the thesis 'Multi-modality imaging in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: In silico and in vivo analyses'. Uyen received a double PhD degree, from Maastricht University and from Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. Prior to her PhD she also obtained two Master’s degrees, in Technical Medicine at Twente University, Enschede, and in Medicine at Maastricht University. Currently, she is specializing in Cardiology at Maastricht University Medical Center+.

For her PhD studies, Uyen reassessed the value of the electrocardiogram to improve the selection of heart-failure patients who will benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy. She also developed a strategy for better positioning of the left-ventricular pacing lead for resynchronization therapy, based on multimodality imaging. Finally, she investigated the influence of dyssynchrony and subsequent cardiac resynchronization therapy on local repolarization patterns and proarrhythmia in the ventricles of the heart. This latter work was the foundation for a project proposal awarded with a Dekker Clinical Scientist grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation.

The following researchers have been awarded a poster prize:

• Division Blood: Eda Aydeniz - The influence of incremental PEEP trials during electrical impedance tomography (EIT) on right ventricular function in mechanical ventilated patients (Poster judges: Camilla Soragni & Matthijs Cluitmans)
• Division Vessels: Michelle van Oeteren - The influence of incremental PEEP trials during electrical impedance tomography (EIT) on right ventricular function in mechanical ventilated patients (Poster judges: Eline Kooi & Steven Meex)
• Division Heart: Tom Konings - Hemodynamics-driven mathematical model of murmur generation (Poster judges: Sabine Daemen & Sam Heuts)

Yesim Kaya (Dept. of Cardiology) received the 2024 Harry Crijns Research Grant for the project '3D-precision radioablation for ventricular tachycardia', a collaboration between the Departments of Cardiology, Radiology and Radiotherapy. The Harry Crijns Research Grant was awarded for the first time in 2021 by the Cardiovascular Research Fund of Health Foundation Limburg (this year sponsored by Bayer and Amgen) to a promising young researcher in the field of cardiovascular disease.

 The first Anna Maria van Schurman Stipend has been awarded to Dr Uyen Chau Nguyen (Dept of Cardiology).

CARIM has introduced the Anna Maria van Schurman Stipend in 2024, aimed at encouraging and supporting female researchers, named after the acknowledged ‘first female Dutch student’. The scholarship amounts €100,000 and will be awarded annually to a female researcher within CARIM. With this scholarship, we wish to help reverse the stagnation in the advancement of women to senior scientific positions in the Netherlands, as highlighted in the 2023 Monitor of Female Professors.

Symposium
The laureate will organise a mini-symposium in collaboration with the CARIM D&I working group and CARIM office around International Women's Day (8 March) in the year following the award. As an exception, the first laureate was announced during the CARIM Symposium on 27 November 2024. In the following years, the scholarship will be awarded during the mini-symposium in March (for the first time in 2026).