Arthur Fonville Award

An annual award for a stroke research dissertation by a medical student in Edinburgh or Amsterdam.

12th Arthur Fonville Award Competition

This is an award for a 1,500-3,000 word dissertation summarising a research project into any aspect of stroke, conducted by a medical student in year 3 to 6 at the University of Edinburgh or the University of Amsterdam.  The winners will receive a £100 voucher and a discrectionary award of up to £750 towards the actual costs (travel/accomodation) to support dissemination of the research at a conference, in a journal, or in further work in the two years after the award.

Arthur Fonville

This posthumous award was established in memory of Arthur Fonville, a medical student from the University of Amsterdam, who worked with the Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage (RUSH) team in Edinburgh 2011-2013, and passed away on September 21, 2014 from the consequences of heatstroke after a 10 mile run in Amsterdam. Heatstroke and bleeding stroke have one thing in common: rapid diagnosis and treatment improve outcome and survival!  Notably, 2025 saw the Amsterdam UMC Foundation establish its own Arthur Fonville Fund, which will enable the Award to be run jointly by Amsterdam and Edinburgh. 

This year's competition opens on 1st July 2026 and closes 21 September 2026.  Submit your dissertation to ELAINE LORD.

 

Previous winners

2025

  • Maaike Wisse for their work, “Predicting Reduced Ejection Fraction in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients: A Prediction Model from the Mind the Heart Study” 
  • Jonelle Marasigan for their dissertation, “Beyond ischaemic lesion volume: MRI-derived lesion severity metrics and associations with functional outcome.”

2024

  • Abris Mumguoglu(Amsterdam): Admission blood pressure and clinical outcomes after endovascular thrombectomy in patients with an acute ischemic stroke: an international multicenter cohort study from the EVA-TRISP collaboration.
  • Saumya Maheshwari and James Aspden (Edinburgh):  Exploring the mechanisms of action of a novel immunomodulatory cell therapy for the treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage

2023

  • Abel Sandmann Natural history of cerebral cavernous malformations: a retrospective single-center cohort study
  • Carlos Rangkuti (Amsterdam) Effects of intravenous Alteplase in patients with carotid tandem lesions undergoing endovascular treatment for proximal anterior circulation stroke – a post-hoc analysis of the MR CLEAN – NO IV Trial
  • Liza Chong (Edinburgh) Retinal vascular changes in relation to brain changes in Mild Stroke Study 3 patients: a one-year follow-up study

2022  

  • Mohshin Syed for his project “Selective outcome reporting in randomised controlled trials including participants with stroke or transient ischaemic attack: a systematic review”
  • Serena Baker for her project “Are There Sex Differences in Thrombectomy Utilisation in Treatment of Acute Ischaemic Stroke? A Systematic Review”.   Amazing Serena also won the 2021 “Great British Sewing Bee”, as if she didn’t have enough on with medical training and various other clinical projects.

2021

  • Yawen Xiang is a year 6 medical student at University of Edinburgh.  Her dissertation was entitled 'Which pathologies contribute to pre-existing dementia in adults with spontaneous (non-traumatic) intracerebral haemorrhage'
  • Noa van den Bos is a medical student from the Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam.  Her dissertation was entitled 'Patient and proxies’ attitudes towards Deferred Consent in randomised trials of acute treatment for stroke: Qualitative survey' 

2020

  • Maritta van Stigt is a PhD candidate at Academisch Medisch Centrum, University of Amsterdam. Her dissertation was entitled “Identification of large vessel occlusions in patients with suspected stroke using ambulant electroencephalography”.
  • Brendan Sargent is a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. He wrote his dissertation on “A cohort study of the effects of perihaematomal oedema on long-term outcomes of intracerebral haemorrhage.”

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

The three winners of the inaugural competition were:

  • Francesca Wright, for “Psychological associations of post-stroke anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis”
  • Scott Osborne, for “Confirmation and Sub-classification of Stroke Cases in UK Biobank”
  • Pheng Toh, for, “Radiographic features of intracerebral haemorrhage associated with pathologically-proven cerebral amyloid angiopathy: systematic review and meta-analysis”

 

Donations to Arthur Fonville Award

Support the Arthur Fonville Fund

Are you willing to support this fund and help promising young researchers to advance in their careers? Support the Arthur Fonville Fund with a donation:

  1. Online donation by credit card
    You can make a secure online donation by credit card via our online donation form: https://www.doneeramsterdamumc.nl/arthur-fonville-fund-eng
  2. Bank transfer
    You can also transfer your donation directly to our bank account:
    IBAN: NL46 INGB 0000 0048 18
    Account name: Amsterdam UMC Foundation

Please clearly mention Arthur Fonville Fund in the payment reference. If you would like to receive a confirmation of your bank transfer, please either include your email address in the payment description or send an email to foundation@amsterdamumc.nl with the details of your donation.

With your donation we can provide young researchers with acknowledgement and support for their research into vascular neurology, including stroke. This stimulates enthusiasm for research, boosts self-confidence, provides direction, and opens doors to research institutions for those students who participate. The Arthur Fonville Fund is a named fund within the Amsterdam UMC Foundation.

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