Fellowship call 2024: announcement winners & pitches

We are very pleased our first Heart4Data fellowship call has started. This program is an opportunity to develop research skills in registry-based research, particularly concerning data linkage, on the topic of heart failure and atrium fibrillation in the Netherlands as they move forward in their career. Three award-winning project proposals have been selected during the National Heart Failure week 22-28 April 2024. They’ve pitched the ideas as part of their submission: Ruben de Winter, Tessa Duk and Mick Hoen (Teamed up with Marielle Wilde, not in de recording) explain their projects in the video’s below.

All three proposals focus on retrospective-observational quality projects concerning heart failure (in the broadest sense, as outcome or subject of the study) with data linkage to the Netherlands Heart Registry (NHR) and one of the Heart4Data partners: Centraal Bureau voor Statistiek (CBS) or Stizon/PHARMO Database Network. 

Ruben de Winter, Amsterdam UMC

SOLACE-HF
Surveillance and Outcome Longevity Analysis in Patients undergoing Isolated Coronary ArtEry Bypass Grafting: Monitoring and Predicting Heart Failure Sequelae through Nationwide Registry Data.

Tessa Duk, Julius Center

Sex differences in the prevalence and effectiveness of the heart failure Fantastic Four
Assess the prevalence of the ‘triple therapy’ and ‘fantastic four’ in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), the efectiveness of these combinations, and whether this differs between women and men.

Mick Hoen, Zuyderland MC/Maastricht UMC+
Marielle Wilde, Erasmus MC

Medication compliance in the heart failure population
How is medication compliance in heart failure patients for the fantastic four (SGLT2 inhibitors, MRA, beta receptor antagonists and ARB/ACEi/ARNI) and what is the association between compliance and heart failure events?

Open call for cardiovascular fellowship research projects

We are very pleased to announce the second Heart4Data consortium cardiovascular fellowship call application. This program will be an opportunity to develop research skills in registry-based research in the cardiovascular area. The most outstanding project proposals will be awarded funding to perform their research, including funding to support their own personal research costs.

For this call we have budget available for three award-winning project proposals, the total budget for the call that is available is €75.000. Deadline for submission is February 14th 2025, with a latest starting date September 1st 2025.

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Funding

The DCVA consortium Heart4Data has been made possible thanks to a grant from ZonMW and the Dutch Heart Foundation.