FURU prize

The FURU prize is awarded by the ‘working group Functional and reconstructive urology (FURU)' of the Dutch association for urology (NVU) to stimulate scientific / clinical research in their field. This FURU prize will be presented at the upcoming Spring Meeting of the on May 24, 2018, together with a certificate and flowers the award is €1000.
Petra de Graaf won the FURU prize for the abstract ‘Gel casting as an approach for tissue engineering of multilayered tubular structures: application for urethral reconstruction’. The abstract is coauthored by Melissa van Velthoven, Rana Ramadan, Barbara J. Klotz, Debby Gawlitta, Miguel Castilho, Jos Malda, Pedro F. Costa and Laetitia de Kort and was presented at the Biofabrication2017 (15-18 October 2017, Beijing, China), at the EAU18 (16-20 March 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark and at the ESPU18 (11-14 April 2018, Helsinki, Finland). The manuscript of this collaborative RMU effort is in preparation.