21-10-2026: Femke was invited to talk about the Neurolipid Atlas & her career on the podcast of Andres Velarde. 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4EMZ95rNBwNNwk93UW6jal?si=7ce203ed2bde4e03

10-07-2026: Amazing! Both Kim and Femke received the 2026 Research Talent Award from Alzheimer Netherlands. Kim in the category 2-4 years after the Phd, Femke for the category 5-8 years after the PhD. Clean sweep for team Dementia Discovery Group & Candidate Center. 

https://www.alzheimer-nederland.nl/nieuws/kim-de-kleijn-en-femke-feringa-winnen-research-talent-awards-van-alzheimer-nederland

21-10-2025: The Neurolipid Atlas received the Amsterdam UMC open science award 2025. Very proud of this achievement, and a great initiative from the Amsterdam UMC

22-09-2025: Our Neurolipid Atlas paper is now online at Nature Metabolism and Alzforum wrote a great article on it. 

https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/neurolipid-atlas-links-brain-lipidome-neurodegenerative-disease

22-05-2025: Tom is the proud recipient of an Alzheimer Netherlands Early Career Grant to support his work on the interaction between ApoE4, mitochondria and neurons. Good Job Tom. 

20-05-2025: Femke and Rik get to discuss their research using stem cells with Queen Maxima of the Netherlands during the opening of the ADORE building. 

01-07-2025: Rik is part of the program "Herinneringen voor het leven / memories for life". on Dutch television. He talks about his research with iPSC and the Efavirenz trial. 

https://www.alzheimer-nederland.nl/tv-programma-alzheimer-nederland-herinneringen-voor-het-leven

It was hot that day! 35 degrees., no airco at the location! 

28-03-2025: Sascha wins the poster prize at the stem cell models of Neurodegeneration (SCMND2025) meeting in Edingbrugh. 

Which was also a fantastic meeting by the way!

10-02-2025: Rik and Jort talk in the podcast "hersenhelden" about advances in (academic) drug discovery for Alzheimer's disease. 

https://podcastluisteren.nl/pod/HersenHelden

10-07-2024: Rik is awarded the 2024 Tauopathy challenge workshop award by the Rainwater Charitable Foundation, CurePSP and Aging Mind Foundation. The grant "Understanding, and targeting, lipid dyshomeostasis in Tauopathies" will allow us to investigate how Tau affects brain lipids metabolism. 

https://rainwatercharitablefoundation.org/the-rainwater-charitable-foundation-curepsp-and-aging-mind-foundation-announce-2-million-in-grants-to-fund-innovative-research-projects-from-the-tauopathy-challenge-workshop/

01-10-2023: Sascha is awarded a FEBS Youth Travel Funds (YTF) Awards to attend the FEBS special meeting Sphingolipid Biology: the dawn of a new era in Madeira, Portugal.

https://sphingolipidbiology2023.febsevents.org/

19-07-2023: Femke is interviewed about her work and presentation at the 2023 Alzheimer Association International meeting in Amsterdam. 

https://www.vjdementia.com/video/0xyxc7nofri-the-effect-of-apoe4-on-lipid-production-in-glial-cells/

20-06-2023: Short feature of the labs research in the Dutch TV program "Memories for life", a fundraiser for Alzheimer Netherlands. 

https://www.alzheimer-nederland.nl/tv-programma-alzheimer-nederland-herinneringen-voor-het-leven/deze-6-onderzoekers-maken-het

14-10-2022: Together with Jetske van der Schaar, Rik discusses innovation in Alzheimer's disease research in the podcast series Hersenhelden (in Dutch):

https://www.jvds.net/13-rik-van-der-kant-innovatie-in-het-alzheimerveld/

direct link to spotify

04-11-2022: Together with his collaborators Martin Giera and Priyanka Narajan, Rik is awarded a second phase grant from CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge network to complete a lipid atlas of multiple neurodegenerative diseases. 

https://vu.nl/nl/nieuws/2022/grote-waardering-voor-onderzoek-naar-vetmetabolisme-in-hersenen
https://cpm.lumc.nl/news/research-into-fat-metabolism-a-first-step-towards-solving-neurodegenerative-diseases-96

01-07-2022: Rik is awarded a ZonMW Vidi for work on lipid droplets in Alzheimer's disease. Bad fat? Improving lipid metabolism to treat Alzheimer’s disease
https://www.alzheimercentrum.nl/vidi-rik-van-der-kant/
https://www.amsterdamumc.org/en/spotlight/three-vidi-grants-for-amsterdam-neuroscience-researchers.htm
https://www.nwo.nl/onderzoeksprogrammas/nwo-talentprogramma/projecten-vidi/vidi-2022

November 2019: Interview with Dutch popular science magazine "New Scientist" regarding new hypotheses for Alzheimer's disease. 

05-09-2019: Rik is nominated for a Alzheimer Netherlands Young Outstanding Researcher Award. An Oscar-deserving clip is made. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtMehSNfu0

https://www.alzheimercentrum.nl/nominatie-talentprijs/

21-10-2025: The Neurolipid Atlas received the Amsterdam UMC open science award 2025. Very proud of this achievement, and a great initiative from the Amsterdam UMC