Bert Leufkens Thesis Award

Prof. Bert Leufkens was scientific director of UIPS from 2004 till 2006 and head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences from 2006 till 2008. He helped initiate the science of pharmacoepidemiology in the Netherlands as well as Drug regulatory science in the Netherlands and Europe. Since 2021 we name the annual award for the best PhD thesis of our institute the Professor Bert Leufkens Award.

Photo by Bas van Breukelen

Nominees and winners:

Candidates 2026:

  • Pharmacology: Roos Verstegen
  • Chemical biology and drug discovery: Yunfei (George) Wu (Winner!)
  • Biomolecular mass spectrometry and proteomics: Mads Larsen
  • Pharmaceutics: Stefania Douka
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and clinical pharmacology: Lisa Davies

Candidates 2025:

  • Pharmacology: Mirelle Kleuskens
  • Chemical biology and drug discovery: Cindy Spruit
  • Biomolecular mass spectrometry and proteomics: Wouter van Bergen
  • Pharmaceutics: Blessing Ilochonwu
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and clinical pharmacology: Amos de Jong (Winner!)

Candidates 2024:

  • Pharmacology: Anne-Metje van Genderen
  • Chemical biology and drug discovery: Gael Vos
  • Biomolecular mass spectrometry and proteomics: Inge Gazi
  • Pharmaceutics: Cristina Casadidio (Winner!)
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and clinical pharmacology: Rosanne Meijboom

Candidates 2023:

  • Pharmacology: Veronica Ayechu Muruzabal
  • Chemical biology and drug discovery: Lifeng Sun
  • Biomolecular mass spectrometry and proteomics: Julia Bauza Martinez (Winner!)
  • Pharmaceutics:
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and clinical pharmacology: Mirjam Hempenius

Candidates 2022:

  • Pharmacology: Katja Jansen (Winner!)
  • Chemical biology and drug discovery:
  • Biomolecular mass spectrometry and proteomics: Charlotte van Gelder
  • Pharmaceutics: Irati Beltran Hernandez
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and clinical pharmacology: Lourens Bloem

Candidates 2021:

  • Pharmacology:
  • Chemical biology and drug discovery: Ivan Gagarinov (Winner!)
  • Biomolecular mass spectrometry and proteomics:
  • Pharmaceutics: Lies Fliervoet
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and clinical pharmacology: Rick Vreman