Young Talent Travel Grants 2025 Awarded!

August 2025

In April, we opened the second round of the CONTRAST2 Young Talent Travel Grants, which gives young CONTRAST researchers the opportunity to go abroad for two months to establish a collaboration.

We congratulate the following people:

• Govert van der Gun – Erasmus MC – WP8
  Using Real-World Data and Advanced Causal Inference Methods to Address Open Questions in Stroke: Beyond the RCTObservational Study Dichotomy – at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston Massachusetts
• Sterre Dassen – Maastricht UMC – WP3a 
  Impact of baseline imaging parameters on treatment effect in EVT for medium vessel occlusion stroke – at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
• Xi Li – Erasmus MC – WP9 
  Prediction Modelling to Optimize the Use of Endovascular Treatment after 6-24 hours of Acute Ischemic Stroke – at Stanford University Medical Centre, California 
• Yasmin Sadigh – Erasmus MC
  The Anatomical Distribution and Variations of Deep Cerebral Perforating Arteries Post-Vascupaint Perfusion in Human Cadavers – at the University of Valencia, Spain 

We look forward to seeing the results of their projects!

Next year in April, we will open another call for these Young Talent Travel Grants and encourage all young researchers with an idea for a project to submit their proposal.