Talent program

Talent activities

Within RECONNECT we have developed a strong talent program with regular PhD/postdoc meetings; networking sessions with (inter)national leading scientists, clinicians, patients and patient representatives; successful 2-day summer schools; a mentoring program; fellowships; and several RECONNECT courses/symposia, aimed at supporting, attracting and developing talent. Within RECONNEXT, we are continuing our young talent program.

Summerschool RECONNEXT: 25-27 september 2024

Fellowship call 2024

Winners: Elisa Dal Canto, Isabel Nguyen, Christian van Dijk, Anna-Sophie Vinke

Titles: 

  • Unraveling the molecular landscape of progression to heart failure: a proteomic investigation in women with coronary microvascular dysfunction (Elisa)
  • Unveiling distinct proteomic signatures in lean and obese perirenal adipose tissue in a model of CKD-associated HFpEF (Isabel)
  • Advancing HFpEF research: unravelling the function of HFpEF associated FABP4 in microvascular tone control via nitric oxide bioavailability (Christian)
  • The effect of intravenous iron supplementation on myocardial function after kidney transplantation (Anna-Sophie)

 

Workshop “Making a Graphical Abstract”

February 2023 – Bakabaka Design

Fellowship call 2022

Winner: Rio Juni

Title: HFpEF-on-a-chip: Unraveling the role of cardiac endothelial-specific long non-coding RNA AL590004.3 in engineered heart tissue.
Summerschool 2022
Schaijk, 28-30 September 2022
Talent program RECONNEXT
The planning of the complete young talent program is visualized as follows:

 

 

 
 
Previous Talent activities (RECONNECT)
In three calls for Talent Program fellowships we awarded a total of 11 ‘out of the box grants’ and 2 CVON ‘crazy idea grants’ to talented PhDs and Post-Docs. The talent program has resulted in recruitment of talent and activities not only from within but also from outside the consortium, stimulating collaborations with new national partners as well as international collaborations and strengthening the link with other large research consortia, including CVON-DOSIS, CVON-PHAEDRA and Queen of Hearts. RECONNECT has financially contributed to enable the Annual Translational Cardiovascular Research Meeting facilitating participation and networking for PhD students and post-docs and allowing them to present their work at the national level. In the past years several RECONNECT Talents have been awarded (inter)national grants related to the RECONNECT program. 
 
 
  • Grant call 2017
  • Summer school 2017
  • Grant call 2018
  • Summer school 2018
  • Summer school 2019