Research Grant Awards

1990 Principal Investigator, National Health Insurance, The efficacy of a pulmonary rehabilita­tion program in patients with chronic obstructive lung diseases in communi­ty based physiotherapy practices (3 years; $175,000)

1991 Principal Investigator, Dutch Association of Pulmonary Diseases, The assessment of effi­ciency of breathing in healthy subjects and patients with chronic obstructive lung diseases (1 year; award amount $ 10,000; Principal Investigator)

1992 Principal Investigator, Dutch Association of Pulmonary Diseases, The efficacy of breathing exercises in patients with chronic obstructive lung diseases (3 years; $175,000)

1992 Principal Investigator, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research, Dynamics of the functional recovery of gait in patients with Parkinson: Diagnostics and therapy (3 years; $ 200,000)

1993 Principal Investigator, Dutch Association for Heart and Vascular Diseases, Dynamics of the functional recovery of stroke patients: Intensity of treatment (4 years; $ 220,000)

1994 Co-Principal Investigator, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research, The effects of forced use of upper extremity function in the functional recovery of hemiplegia after stroke (4 years; $ 300,000)

1996 Co-Principal Investigator, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research , Disorders in arm and hand coordination in Parkinson's disease: Dynamics of perception-action coupling' (3 years; $ 200,000)

1996 Principal Investigator, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research, Dynamics of movement coordination in human walking (4 years; $ 250,000)

1997 Co-Principal Investigator, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research, Dynamics of movement coordination in human walking (Instrumentation grant; 3-dimensional movement analysis system; 4 years; $ 275,000)

1998 Co-Principal Investigator Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research, Disordered coordination patterns during walking in patients with low backpain (4 years; $ 250,000)

1998 Principal Investigator, Roybal Center Consortium (NIH/NIA), Coordination of walking in elderly at risks of falls (1 year; $ 10,000).

2001 Principal Investigator Boston University, Center of Excellence for Neurorehabilitation’. (5 years; $ 114,000)

2001 Co- Principal Investigator United States Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Models of Human Locomotion: Implications for Load Carriage (1 year; $40,000.00)

2003 Principal Investigator NIH/NIA (R01), Rehabilitation for Self-Management in Parkinson’s Disease (3 years; $ 1,222,500).

2003 Co-Investigator NIH (R21), Optic flow and spatial navigation in Parkinson’s Disease. (2 years; $375,676).