11 December 2020
Dr Rick Quax of the Computational Science Lab and Dr Jos Bosch of the Department of Psychology received an H2020 grant of which they are work package leaders.
Physical and mental illness influence each other. In so-called comorbidity, you have one or more (chronic) conditions in addition to the main diagnosis that is the focus of most attention. An international team will conduct research into depression as a common and serious comorbidity of cardiovascular disease.
TO_AITION (A high-dimensional approach for unwinding immune-metabolic causes of cardiovascular disease-depression multimorbidities’) is an European-funded consortium of fifteen partners, including universities, hospitals, and private partners. ,
Rick Quax and Jos Bosch UvA and Dr Femke Lamers GGZ Ingeest/Vumc received 900,000 euros for their research.
Read more (in Dutch).