Annual CAPHRI Research Day 2026

CAPHRI Awards

Who will win the CAPHRI Nanne de Vries Dissertation Award 2025?

The Nanne de Vries Dissertation Award recognizes the completion of an outstanding dissertation by a CAPHRI PhD candidate in 2025. This year's nominees are:

ALTC	Lise Buma Reablement and the philosophy’s goal: paving the way for reablement in the Netherlands using global insights
VHC	Roos van der Ven The complexity of multi-hospital oncology networks: A widely used and promising structure without a blueprint
FPR	Wouter Vints Resistance training and muscle-brain crosstalk: implications for cognitive decline in aging and spinal cord injury
HISP	Charlotte Peters Beyond the red lights: understanding the STI/HIV burden and sexual healthcare needs of home-based and migrant sex workers
OPC	Melissa Rethlefsen Improving the reproducibility and reporting quality of search strategies in biomedical systematic reviews
PHPC	Filippo Zimbile Using stepped care to strategically organize ehealth and promote self-care: experiences from public sexual health care in the Netherlands

From these exceptional candidates, the Science Committee has chosen the final three.

The top-3 finalists are:

	Roos van der Ven (VHC) The complexity of multi-hospital oncology networks: A widely used and promising structure without a blueprint
	Wouter Vints (FPR) Resistance training and muscle-brain crosstalk: implications for cognitive decline in aging and spinal cord injury
	Charlotte Peters (HISP) Beyond the red lights: understanding the STI/HIV burden and sexual healthcare needs of home-based and migrant sex workers

During the CAPHRI Day, these top-3 finalists will present their outstanding research, after which the winner of the Nanne de Vries Dissertation Award 2025 will be officially announced during the plenary closing ceremony at the end of the day.