The Board of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, declares that Simona Turco working as an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands has been awarded an Academy Van Leersum Grant her working visit for the research project "Multi-parametric ultrasound imaging for pancreatic cancer" at the Department of Radiology, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, United States of America from 6 February 2020 for a period of three months.