VAN NOORDWIJK AWARD - battle of the universities - The Van Noordwijk Award (the award for winning the Willem Kolff Battle of the Universities) was founded in 2003. It's contest between university research teams, which aims to inspire young researchers to come up with unorthodox and practical innovations for clinical problems in a limited timeframe, concerning large numbers of patients. The researchers compete in interdiciplinary university teams to stimulate different and cross-over thinking. The award was named after Jacob van Noordwijk M.D. PhD. (1920-2008), the first assistant of Dr. Kolff in wartime Holland in 1944-45, who played a keyrole in developing the artificial kidney. The first 'battle of the universities' was held in 2011 (Leiden), the second in 2014 (Eindhoven), the third in 2018 (Leiden). |