Prizes, scholarships, subsidies and honours of all kinds for Leiden University for starting researchers to world experts. A selection of the prizewinners from 2011 gives an impression of the scope of scientific research at Leiden University.

Bart van Horck best lecturer 2010
Bart van Horck, MSc, lecturer in Public Administration, is the winner of the Leiden Student Council Teaching Prize. The LSr chose him as best lecturer 2010 for his engagement with his students and for his interactive lectures.
Bart van Horck best lecturer 2010

Arda Goceroglu wins ECHO Award 2011
Arda Goceroglu has won the ECHO Award 2011 for a student in academic education. This means that the Award has been won by a Leiden student for the second year in succession.
Arda Goceroglu wins ECHO Award 2011

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• Three Leiden talents participate in National Think Tank

• Rabobank supports two African master's students of African Studies

Research abroad with a Rubicon grant
Promising young Leiden researchers Wouter van den Bos, Tim van Erven and Wouter Halfwerk are going to conduct research at foreign universities. A Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research is making this possible. Two academics who completed their PhD degrees abroad are coming to Leiden.
Research abroad with a Rubicon grant

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• 19 Veni awards for Leiden researchers

• NWO Free Competition subsidies for Professor I.M. Tieken and Dr H.W. Siemens

• Subsidies for knowledge transfer awarded to Juffer and Rodrigues 

• Two Rubicons for Leiden

Four ERC grants for Leiden
Four of Leiden's top researchers have been awarded substantial grants by the European Research Council.
Four ERC grants for Leiden

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• Residence time of medication on target molecule more important than affinity

• Major European subsidy for research into Amerindian languages

• International research on the slave trade

• Does the Maya calendar have a future?

• A robot that bakes pancakes

• Six million for research into thyroid gland disorder in elderly people

• Subsidy for world-wide research network focusing on Asian cities

• ‘FishForPharma’ as a model for infectious diseases

• Shedding light on the dark side of the universe

• How galaxies expand by absorbing gas clouds

• Science Magazine prize for astronomy programme for young children

• European subsidy for Sander Nieuwenhuis for the brain in action

• 5.7 million European subsidy for Living Lab The Hague

KWF Cancer Fund to subsidise Leiden research into bladder cancer
Dr Geertje van der Horst, Dr Rob Bevers and Dr Gabri van der Pluijm of the Urology department at the Leiden University Medical Center have been awarded a subsidy of € 550,000 by the KWK Cancer Fund. 'Our application has been awarded the maximum subsidy. We can now carry out unique research in the field of cancer of the bladder.'
KWF Cancer Fund to subsidise Leiden research into bladder cancer

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• Two ‘Green Genetics’ subsidies for Leiden Institute of Biology

• The hunt for artificial leaves and cheap photobiological cells

‘Antibiotics wanted!’ wins Academic Year Prize
Secretary of State Zijlstra slowly opened the large gold envelope containing the name of the winner of the Academic Year Prize 2011. It had been an exciting finale. But there could be only one winner. And that honour went to the Leiden team of molecular biologist Gilles van Wezel with ‘Antibiotics wanted!’
‘Antibiotics wanted!’ wins Academic Year Prize

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• Crone one of the most powerful women in Dutch science

• Dutch Network of Women Professors honours two female researchers from Leiden

• Professor Joke Bouwstra honoured for skin research 

• Leiden alumna wins thesis prize

• Special award for Ingrid Tieken

Rudi Westendorp Honorary Doctor Newcastle University
Rudi Westendorp, Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Leiden University Medical Center, and Director of the Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, has been appointed Honorary Doctor of Medicine at Newcastle University.
Rudi Westendorp Honorary Doctor Newcastle University