Awards & Grants

Young Investigators Research and Travelling Scholarship to Adelaide/ Australia (Swiss National Foundation)

Research Scholarship (Ciba-Geigy Jubilee Foundation, Basel/ Switzerland)

Presidential Travelling Scholarship to Houston/ USA (Scanning Microscopy International)

Best presentation award for the paper “Salahuddin S, Hussain H, Kaniruddin N, Hashimi A, Buchholz NP, Gohar A, Khan J: Prescribing TB drugs: Russian roulette or safeplay” (Society of Chest Physicians, Quetta/ Pakistan)

Research grant for the project “Biyabani R., Buchholz NP, Talati J, Sutton R, Rahbar H: Is urine citrate excretion genetically determined?“ (The Aga Khan University Karachi/ Pakistan)

Research grant for the project “Buchholz NP, Salahuddin-Buchholz S, Kok D: Three glasses a day keep the stone away – the development of a new tasty anti-stone drink” (Urological Scientific Research Foundation SUWO, Rotterdam/ The Netherlands)

Research Grant for the project “Do Spirastents speed up residual fragment clearance after ESWL of large kidney stones?” (Urosurge®, Coralville, USA)

1998 Research grant for the project Verkoelen C, Kok D, Buchholz NP:effecten van schokgolven op tubulaire nier epitheelcellen (Urological Scientific Research Foundation SUWO, Rotterdam/ the Netherlands)

Accreditation of The Higher Urology Training Program of Barts& The London NHS Trust Urology Dept. by the European Board of Urology EBU

Best poster award: Salahuddin S, Kok DJ, Buchholz N: Dosage alterations to prevent intratubularIndinavir crystallization. XXth Congress of the European Association of Urology, Istanbul, 2005

Merit Award “Surgery Team of the Year”, Hospital Doctor, Sutton/ United Kingdom

Corrie/ Cattlin Prize for Medical Research, St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Charitable Foundation, London/ United Kingdom

Outstanding Poster Award for :Staios D, Iliyya LK, Bogris S, Bafaloukas N, Buchholz N: Our experience of Manual Stent Register. World Congress of Endourology WCE, Cleveland/ USA

Nominee Excellence in Teamwork Award, Celebrating Success Awards 2007, Barts & The London NHS Trust, London / UK

Visiting Professor, Syrian Association of Urology, University HospitalDamascus and Al-Khindi Hospital Aleppo / Syria

Awarded Centre of Excellence Status for the Treatment of Upper Urinary Tract Stones. European Board of Urology (EBU)

Highlight Poster Award for “El-Husseiny T, Moraitis K, Maan Z, Birch M, Masood J, Buchholz N: The new Invisio® DUR-D “chip-on-the-tip” ureteroscopes – evaluation of changes in physical properties over time”. 27th World Congress of Endourology WCE, Munich/ Germany

Certificate of Contribution, “The Global PCNL Study”, CROES Council, International Endourology Society/ New York/ USA

Dickens N, Buchholz N, Masood J: The impact of a virtual nurse led x-ray review in improving ultilization of shockwave lithotripsy treatment slots? EAUN Vienna/ Austria, 2011 (awarded best EAUN poster presentation (Scientific Research)). Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from AMGEN (Europe)

Best poster award for: Edirisinghe TY, Bach C, Buchholz N, Knight MM: The Influence of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy on Tissue Viability around Metallic Ureteral Stents. EAU-EULIS, London/ UK

Best poster award: Zaman F, Bach C, Kumar P, Kachrilas S, Buchholz N, Masood J, Junaid I: Acceleration of competency in renal access skills by using virtual reality Perc-Mentor trainer. Poster #103, EAU Paris/ France, 2012

Winter Short Papers Prize for: Goyal A, Zaman F, Kachrilas S, Bach C, Buchholz N, Masood J: Inferior distraction of the kidney to aid upper pole and supracostal punctures during percutaneous renal access. Clinical Uro-Radiological meeting, Royal Society of Medicine, London/ UK

Best Poster award for: A. Bint-E-Siddiq1, M.M. Gabriel1, T. Nedilko1, P.A. Paulose1, C.E. Gabriel1, T.Y. Edirisinghe1, N. Buchholz2, M.M. Knight: An in vitro investigation on the effect of shockwave lithotripsy on encrusted urological stents. SIU-UK section

Certified Sentinel of Science Award Recipient. Publons.com

Honorary International Active Member of the Algerian Community of Endourologists and Laparoscopic Surgeons ACELAS

Publons Peer Review Award. Publons.com

Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing. Int. J Surgery. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing. Int. J Gerontology Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Flagship poster award: Kram W, Knaupp C, Nebe B, Rebl H, Schnabelrauch M, Testrich H, Buchholz N, Hakenberg OW: Investigating the interactive effect of surface-modified polyurethane catheters with ureteral tissue for the inhibition of cell adhesion and incrustation of urological implants. Challenges in Endourology CIE, Amsterdam/ The Netherlands

Publons Peer Review Award. Publons.com

Named top peer reviewer in Clinical Medicine global reviewer database, Publons.com

Named top peer reviewer in Cross field global reviewer database, Publons.com

Appreciation notification for “Teamwork”, Mediclinic City Hopsital, Dubai/ UAE