Vici grants

The Veni, Vidi and Vici grants together form the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, a subsidised programme for talented, creative researchers who conduct innovative research. The Vici grant is for outstanding senior researchers who have successfully demonstrated the ability to develop their own innovative lines of research.

2024

Radboudumc (3)

  • Martin Dresler - Sleep 2.0 – towards a new science of human sleep
  • Niels Riksen - Preventing recurrent heart attacks
  • Michiel Schreuder - Better kidneys after preterm birth (PREKID project)

2023

Radboud University (3) 

  • Floris de Lange - Reconstructing the predictive architecture of the mind and brain  
  • Marius Peelen -  Seeing and thinking: Interplay between externally and internally generated neural representations
  • Mark Dingemanse -  Toekomsten van Taal

Radboudumc (1)

  • Alexander Hoischen - SOLVE-IEI: Solving Enigmas of Undiagnosed Inborn Errors of Immunity  

2022

Radboud University (3)

  • Teun Bousema - The spread of artemisinin resistance in Africa (SPARTAN)
  • Mirjam Broersma - Second language acquisition in refugees: Effects of psychological trauma on linguistic and communicative skills
  • Alicia Montoya - Modeling book-reader interactions in the Age of Revolution, c. 1760-1830 

2021

Radboud University (3) 

  • Brigitte Adriaensen - Medicine or Magic Potion? Shifting Perspectives on Drugs in Latin America (1820-2020).
  • Erno Hermans - Building stress resilience.
  • Alexander Khajetoorians - What can we ‘learn’ with atoms?

Radboudumc (1)

  • Ioannis Sechopoulos -  Improving breast cancer diagnostics.

2020

Radboud University (3)

  • Dirk Lefeber - A system-level view on sugar metabolism – creating the basis for high-precision sugar therapies.
  • Eliane Segers - Opportunities and challenges in comprehension of digital texts.
  • Michiel Vermeulen - Reading the epitranscriptome.

2019

Radboud University (7) 

  • Christian Beckmann - Big data for precision medicine: new tools for brain connectopics.
  • Sabine Hunnius - How curiosity drives child development.
  • Sander Leeuwenburgh - Regeneration of infected bone by biomaterials built from nanoparticles.
  • Bas van de Meerakker - Taming chemical reactions.
  • Anouk Rijs - Peptide self-assembly, one non-covalent interaction at a time.
  • Jana Roithová - Selecting the Optimal Catalyst.
  • Annette Schenck - Towards treatment of Intellectual Disability and Autism disorders.

2018

Radboud University (4) 

  • Maaike van Berkel - Research into the water supply in the Medieval Middle East.
  • Moniek Buijzen - Research social networks such as Instagram and Snapchat.
  • Marguérite Corporaal - Research nineteenth and early-twentieth century European couleur locale.
  • Dennis Schutter - Research into agression driven by blind rage.