ANDI project receives award for Amsterdam’s most innovative scientific idea

1 Jul 2017 - 2 min

Nathalie de Vent and Joost Agelink van Rentergem winners of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2017

The award for Amsterdam’s most innovative scientific idea

Nathalie de Vent and Joost Agelink van Rentergem of the University of Amsterdam are the winners of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2017, the annual award for the most innovative scientific idea of all Amsterdam knowledge and research institutes.

They received the award for the Advanced Neuropsychological Diagnostics Infrastructure (ANDI), a new online infrastructure for the improvement of neuropsychological diagnostics. The eScience Center participated in this project, developing an interactive web application.

ANDI – a new online infrastructure for the improvement of neuropsychological diagnostics

Advanced Neuropsychological Diagnostics Infrastructure (ANDI) is a website for the analysis of neuropsychological test results to improve the diagnosis of brain trauma or brain disease. ANDI has a large database of representative standard data of healthy controls, which makes the comparison of a patient with the standard group more precise than when the traditional standard tables are used. Also, demographic background variables are taken into account in this equation. Nathalie: “This way, ANDI facilitates and improves neuropsychological diagnostics, which can also improve care for patients with brain diseases.”

Nathalie de Vent and Joost Agelink van Rentergem received the prize of € 10,000 from Mirjam van Praag, chairman of the jury. “ANDI can make the difference for thousands of people. The jury was initially surprised that such a platform did not already exist: it sounds like something that is practically possible and that serves a clear question. ANDI takes this up and uses big data and networks in an innovative way, “said Mirjam van Praag.

Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award

The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award is the annual award for the most innovative idea with a social and/or commercial application, derived from scientific research. This year is the twelfth edition of this award. The Award is organized by IXA (Innovation Exchange Amsterdam). Partners of the Award are the City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Science Park, Sanquin, NKI-AVL, Rabobank, Port of Amsterdam, Equinix, Surfsara and De Vries & Metman.

News item IXA: https://ixa.amsia.nl/winners/