Frank Meye
    • Heidelberglaan 100, UMC Utrecht

      3584 CX Utrecht

      Netherlands

    20082025

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    Biography

    Neurophysiologist doing research on the brain's reward system in health and disease. Current focus on effects of stress on the (extended) dopamine neural circuitry, in relation to obesity, eating disorders and drug addiction. 

    Side activities

    - Committee member of ZonMW Open Competition funding program.

    - Member of UMCU Young Academy.

    - Member of Dutch Neuroscience Meeting organization board.

    - Member of the UMCU Internationalization Committee

     

     

    Fellowship & awards

     

    2021: Recipient of NWO VIDI 
    2019: Co-Recipient of NWO Gravity Grant
    2019: Co-Recipient of Young IBRO Connecting Regions Grant
    2019: Recipient of CJ Vaillant Grant
    2018: Recipient of European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
    2017: Recipient of Rudolf Magnus Young Talent award
    2016: Recipient of NARSAD Young Investigator award BBR Foundation
    2015: Recipient of VENI grant from Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
    2012: Recipient of Fondation Fyssen postdoctoral scholarship

    Research interests

    - Neural circuits

    - Synaptic plasticity

    - Cravings

    - Impulsivity

    - Eating Disorders

    - Drug Addiction

    - Dopamine

    - Neurophysiology

    External positions

    Lid Commissie ZonMW Open Competitie - Beoordeling van biomedische onderzoeksvoorstellen (raakvlak is dat ik biomedisch onderzoeker ben). - ZonMW

    1 Jun 202031 Dec 3999

    Keywords

    • QP Physiology
    • Neuroscience

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