Grants

LUMC Fellowship and Gisela Thier Fellowship

LUMC provides two fellowships yearly for talented scientists. The LUMC Fellowship is open to both internal and external candidates (more than five years post-PhD) and offers 800,000 euros in total. The Gisela Thier Fellowship focuses on recently graduated researchers (up to five years post-PhD), with a budget of up to 400,000 euros. Most laureates have established their independent research groups at LUMC, so these fellowships are an excellent stepping stone for your academic career.

Leiden University Medical Center provides talented scientists with the opportunity to receive a LUMC Fellowship. The purpose of this Fellowship is to enable scientists (more than 5 years post-PhD) to become one of the trendsetters of LUMC’s research portfolio. An excellent stepping stone for your academic career. The LUMC Fellowship offers the opportunity to initiate a long-term line of research in your field if your research coincides with one of LUMC’s research themes. For this Fellowship, you can be nominated by a LUMC department head, and you will be appointed to a department at LUMC.

LUMC Fellowship

Laureates

The following researchers have been awarded a LUMC Fellowship in recent years:

  • 2024: Dr. Hans Dierckx (Dept. Cardiology)
  • 2023: Dr Edris Mahtab (Dept. Cardio-Thoracic Surgery)
  • 2022: Dr. Georg Zeller (LU-CID)
  • 2021: Dr. Elisabeth Salzer (Dept. Pediatrics)
  • 2020: Dr. Elena Dominguez Vega (Dept. Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics)
  • 2019: Dr. Annemarthe van der Veen (Dept. Immunology)
  • 2018: Dr. Bart Everts (Dept. Parasitology)
  • 2017:Dr. Meindert Lamers (Dept. Cell & Chemical Biology)
  • 2016: Dr. Rolf Groenwold (Dept. Clinical Epidemiology)

LUMC Gisela Thier Fellowship

The objective of the LUMC Gisela Thier Fellowship is to offer talented, recently graduated LUMC researchers who are at the start of their careers the opportunity to conduct research at LUMC for four years and gain experience as a project leader. To cover staffing and other costs the budget is a maximum of €100,000 per year, linked to the appointment, up to 4 years.

Laureate 2024

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LUMC Gisela Thier Fellowship

The objective of the LUMC Gisela Thier Fellowship is to offer talented, recently graduated LUMC researchers who are at the start of their careers the opportunity to conduct research at LUMC for four years and gain experience as a project leader. To cover staffing and other costs the budget is a maximum of €100,000 per year, linked to the appointment, up to 4 years.

Laureate 2024

 The LUMC Gisela Thier Fellowship 2024 was awarded to Dr Jessica Roelands (Dept. Pathology). The research project she will be carrying out is: Exploiting bacteria and bacterial metabolites as modulators of antigen-presenting cells in cancer immunity.

Laureates

The following researchers have been awarded a LUMC Gisela Thier Fellowship in recent years:

  • 2024: Dr. Jessica Roelands (Dept. Pathology)
  • 2023: Dr. Fiamma Salerno (Dept. Immunology)
  • 2022: Dr. Sanneke van Rooden (Radiology)
  • 2021: Dr. Maartje Huijbers (Dept. Neurology / Human Genetics)
  • 2020: Dr. Simon Jochems (Dept. Parasitology)
  • 2019: Dr. Tetje van der Sluijs (Dept. Immunology)
  • 2018: Dr. Roel Bijkerk (Dept. IM-Nephrology)
  • 2017: Dr. Baoxu Pang (Dept. Cell & Chemical Biology)
  • 2016: Dr. Diana van der Woude (Dept. Rheumatology)

More information

Applicants should always first contact the Head of Department of where they want to carry out their fellowship project.

For questions about the LUMC fellowships, please contact Mrs K.Y. Bergman, Directorate of Research Policy, e-mail: research@lumc.nl