Early recognition of talent is one of the key strategies of CARIM to coach and prepare gifted young academics for their future academic career. CARIM stimulates and supports talented students and staff by offering grants for research programs at each step of their career, be it at Bachelor, Master, post graduate, PhD or post-doc level.

We are pleased to inform you that the call for the “Kootstra Talent Fellowship” (KTF), round Fall 2021 is open. The application deadline is 1 October 2021.

The 'Hartenbank' of the Netherlands Heart Institute (NHI), a non-profit organisation founded June 2020, is a central biobank in which heart tissue from deceased donors and associated medical data is stored for scientific research.

Rogier Veltrop, funded by the MSCA-ITN CaReSyAn network, won the Avento Grant 2021 worth €30,000,-.

You can now subscribe for the NHS Cardiovascular Training courses for PhD students to be held in Papendal from October 11-15, 2021.

Stepan Denisov (Dept. of Biochemistry) has received a Rubicon grant from NWO for his research on ticks and loss of balance.

Hart en vaat onderzoekfonds Limburg, heeft besloten om een Harry Crijns Research Grant in te stellen. Deze grant ten bedrage van € 25.000 wordt periodiek toegekend aan jonge wetenschappers die zich bezighouden met klinisch cardiovasculair onderzoek en daarmee bijdragen aan de realisering van de doelstellingen van de foundation.

Register now for the CARIM Courses (June 14-18). An excellent opportunity to improve your skills in cardiovascular research and to update your knowledge of cardiovascular principles. On top of that it enables you to get to know your fellow PhD’s and members of the CARIM staff (at least in the virtual world).

The CytoSMART Research Grant is an initiative to help motivated students and researchers improve their project's quality.

The innovative work of CARIM Researchers Mark Post and Rogier Veltrop was discussed during a live broadcast show organised by the UM Alumni office.