Awards
FIGON and its partners have several prizes that are awarded annually.
PhD Student Competition
The annual PhD competition is a prominent part of the Dutch Medicines Days.
FIGON wants to give the best students from the different regions a stage to present their research.
It is important that candidates from different pharmaceutical and medical research groups from Dutch research institutes compete for the honor and the prizes.
For this all institutes in the Netherlands are yearly invited to nominate a candidate who conducts innovative drug research and can present this research. The institutes decide how this candidate is selected.
When several research schools are located in a region, one candidate per region applies. (Institutes should be in contact with each other about this).
Poster Prize Awarding
The poster prize awarding is a prominent part of the Dutch Medicines Days with its own moderated tour highlighting exceptional visual presentations that combine scientific novelty and excellence during that year’s conference and exhibit.
The Poster Awards Ceremony is one of the highlights of the conference, placing emphasis on the most outstanding visual presentations of each topic.
Ariëns Award Lecture Laureate
The Ariëns Award lecture is organized by the Dutch Pharmacological Society in memory of Professor E.J. Ariëns, one of the founders of the field of pharmacology and professor at the University of Nijmegen and held at the During the Dutch Medicines Day.
Prix Galien
In Nederland worden sinds 1992 elk jaar de Galenus Geneesmiddelenprijs en de Galenus Researchprijs uitgereikt. Vanaf 2018, bij het 25-jarig bestaan van de Galenusprijzen is de naam, naar internationaal voorbeeld, definitief omgedoopt in respectievelijk Prix Galien, Prix Galien Pharmaceutical Award en Prix Galien Research Award.
KHMW Saal van Zwanenberg Ereprijs
De Dr. Saal van Zwanenberg Ereprijs wordt al sinds 1964 uitgereikt aan geneesmiddelwetenschappers, momenteel door de KHMW. De KHMW Saal van Zwanenberg Ereprijs wordt eenmaal in de twee jaar uitgereikt als eerbetoon aan een wetenschapper die zich verdienstelijk heeft gemaakt op het gebied van onderzoek dat direct of indirect heeft geleid tot de ontwikkeling van nieuwe geneesmiddelen of de processen die daar rondom plaatsvinden. Het betreft hier de volle breedte van het geneesmiddelonderzoeksveld: ‘van molecuul tot klinische toepassing’. De prijs wordt afwisselend aan een onderzoeker of een clinicus toegekend en is bedoeld voor Nederlanders of voor buitenlanders, die hun onderzoek hebben uitgevoerd aan Nederlandse instellingen van onderwijs en/of onderzoek. Foto by Hilde de Wolf
Awarding
PhD Student Competition 2024
Congratulations to the awardees of the PhD Student Competition 2024:
1st prize: Eline Berends, Maastricht University
Methylglyoxal and the brainmicrocirculation – the source matters2nd prize: Joanneke Overbeen, RadboudUMC
Off-label, but on-target:alternative dosing regimens for anticancer drugs
3rd prize: Khaled Essa, Leiden University
Exploration of targetedCCR2 degradation as a novel therapeutic modality
Photo by Bart Versteeg
Awarding
Poster Prizes 2024
Congratulations to the awardees of the Poster Prizes:
Hector Franco Barbosa Rhault Loponte, University of Groningen
GlycoGenius: A Tool for Automated Glycomics Data Analysis and Visualization
Jamie van der Vaart, University of Amsterdam
Mitochondrial uncoupling with BAM15 prevents weight gain, lowers plasma cholesterol and attenuates atherosclerosis development in APOE*3-Leiden
Lotte di Niro, Free University Amsterdam
Viral GPCR US28 as a driver of oncogenic extracellular vesicle secretion in brain
cancer
Photo by Bart Versteeg
Ariëns Award Lecture Laureate
The 2024 Ariens laureate is Professor dr. Erik Frijlink. Professor Frijlink has worked for Solvay Pharmaceuticals in Weesp before becoming professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Groningen. He and his team were able to improve inhalers to achieve real benefit for patients. His Ariens lecture held at the Dutch Medicines Days in Oss on October 16 2024, was titled: "From pharmacology to technology and back".
Previous winners
2015 - 2023
PhD Student Competition 2023
PhD Student Competition 2022
PhD Student Competition 2021
PhD Student Competition 2020 (online)
PhD Student Competition 2019
PhD Student Competition 2018
PhD Student Competition 2017
PhD Student Competition 2016
PhD Student Competition 2015
Poster Prize Winners 2023
Poster Prize Winners 2019
Poster Prize Winners 2018
Poster Prize Winners 2017
Poster Prize Winners 2016
Poster Prize Winners 2015
Poster Prize Winners 2015
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