New generation, new impetus: Sutter honors Rick Vreeburg, MD, with the first Sutter Young Microsurgeon Award
At this year's EANS 2025 in Vienna, the Sutter Young Microsurgeon Award was presented for the first time – an award that recognizes outstanding young talent in neurosurgery.
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From Zurich to Vienna: Sutter continues its tradition of promoting innovation with the Young Microsurgeon Award
When science meets passion, innovation happens—and so do the people who drive it forward. At EANS 2025 in Vienna, Sutter Medizintechnik presented the Sutter Young Microsurgeon Award for the first time to promote young talent in neurosurgery. The award went to Rick Vreeburg, MD, from Leiden University Medical Center, whose research on ruptured intracranial aneurysms and the SPARTA study on aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages has already attracted international attention.
“Dr. Vreeburg represents the connection between research and practice – exactly what neurosurgery needs for the future,” said Bert Sutter ahead of the award ceremony. The initiative was supported by the EANS and its president, Torstein Meling, MD, who emphasized the importance of mentoring, training, and cross-border cooperation.
With this new award, Sutter is setting an example – and at the same time building on its own history: that meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, in the 1960s, where Hermann Sutter and Prof. Gazi Yaşargil laid the foundation for the development of Europe's first bipolar forceps. Then as now, Sutter stands for innovation, precision, and the promotion of the next generation of neurosurgeons.