Student awards

Fee awarded to students that executed an excellent fundamental or applied cancer research during their scientific internship.

Promising students can receive an incentive prize from the Nijbakker-Morra Foundation. This thesis prize consists of a sum of 2500 euros that can be freely spent to support the future research career, such as attending a scientific conference on cancer research abroad. A condition to be eligible for this incentive prize is that the student has completed a research internship in the 12 months before the deadline in the field of fundamental or applied cancer research and has thereby demonstrated a special talent and motivation for cancer research.

Procedure

Students can be nominated by their supervisor, but the student must take the initiative to actually compete for the prize. Nominations can be submitted every year before 1 November 5 pm. The nomination must contain the following information:

CV of the student
Motivation letter from the student
Recommendation/support letter from the supervisor
Report of the research internship and/or copy of publication

The price is awarded once per academic year in the first week of February. Entries will be judged by the Medical Advisory Committee of the Nijbakker-Morra Foundation. The motivation is an essential part of the assessment and can be the deciding factor if the research is of equal quality. Entries for the prize can be addressed to Prof. dr. Dr. P. Devilee. Submission must be made through the Secretariat of the Medical Advisory Committee, attn. Ms. M. Kantebeen-Zoetemelk. Please submit by e-mail (preferably as 1 PDF): M.Kantebeen-Zoetemelk@lumc.nl.

Award ceremony 2023 – Interested parties are welcome

The next festive presentation of the student prizes will take place on Wednesday 1 February 2023 from 15.30-17.30 at the LUMC, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA Leiden, the Netherlands.

During the ceremony, the prize winners will explain their research in a presentation of 15-20 minutes that is also understandable for laymen. Afterwards there is a drink and an opportunity to congratulate. In addition to family and friends of the prize winners, interested parties are also very welcome.