During the NVVC Spring Congress 2025, the winners of the second Heart4Data Fellowship Call were announced. Many good research ideas were submitted, three of which were selected for fellowships. The young researchers selected to work on innovative registration-based research are:
- Qingui Chen, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum
Long-term anticoagulation therapy after cathether ablation for atrial fibrillation in the Netherlands: Does Dutch practice align with guidelines? - Kevin Veen, Erasmus MC
Optimizing lifetime treatment strategies in adult patients with aortic valve disease – A microsimulation study - Kimberley Hemelrijk, Amsterdam UMC
Clinical outcomes of female patients undergoing TAVI, comparing balloon-expandable with self-expandable valves
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This fellowship call is part of the efforts of the Heart4Data consortium. Heart4Data is funded by the Dutch Heart Foundation and ZonMw, and is supported by the Dutch CardioVascular Alliance (DCVA). In this consortium, the Dutch Heart Registry (NHR) is working with other DCVA partners to create an infrastructure for registry-based research.
The DCVA is a network organisation of twenty-four partners, active in the cardiovascular field. Patients, scientists, healthcare providers, research funders, policy-makers and industry together are committed to making research results benefit people with cardiovascular diseases faster. The joint goal of the DCVA partners is to reduce the burden of disease for cardiac patients by 25% by 2030.
This is what the studies by Qingui Chen, Kevin Veen and Kimberley Hemelrijk will contribute to. We look forward to their results!
