July 2006: Chris de Korte has obtained a VIDI grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
The grant of 600.000 euro is rewarded for the project proposal "Vulnerable Plaque Detection in Carotid Arteries using Non-Invasive Ultrasound Elastography". The project will be carried out the upcoming five years in close collaboration with the departments of Vascular Surgery and Radiology of the Radboud UMC Nijmegen, the department of Experimental Cardiology of the UMC Utrecht, and Philips Medical Systems