Research Challenge Award Winner 2023: Dr Debby Klooster

We are delighted to announce that Dr Debby Klooster has been awarded the Brainbox Initiative Research Challenge Award 2023 for her ambitious research proposal for integrated non-invasive brain stimulation study focusing on Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation. 

Dr Debby Klooster has a background in biomedical engineering (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (Belgium). Her research is funded by the research foundation Flanders (FWO) and focuses on personalising brain stimulation protocols by using multimodal imaging data (MRI and EEG).

Even though her previous work mostly focused on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), Debby will focus on Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (TUS) in the Research Challenge Award project. Specifically, she aims to implement Electroencephalography (EEG)-triggered TUS and to investigate if EEG-derived brain states influence the responses to TUS.

 

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Established in 2016, the Brainbox Initiative Research Challenge aims to help early-mid career neuroscientists with the most ambitious research proposals gain crucial access to the non-invasive brain stimulation and imaging equipment and training that they need to make their plans a reality. The Research Challenge award provides our winners with a three-month loan of specialist neuroscience equipment to complete their study; ongoing technical support and guidance throughout this period; and additional financial support to help make the study possible.