Jaap van Netten was awarded the novel "Art in Science Award", an award dedicated for recognition of excellence in pressure distribution research. The award was provided for the best research publication in the period 2021-2023 on research in the field of sensing body contact and dynamic load on the human body. The award was provided for the paper "New biomechanical models for cumulative plantar tissue stress assessment in people with diabetes at high risk of foot ulceration" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38244402/), with first author Chantal Hulshof, and with Jaap as corresponding author and presenter at the ESM conference where the award was handed out. https://novel.de/events/esm-2024/