Scientific merit
MSc Molecular Medicine Faculty members are directly involved in basic biomedical research and training, within many different research groups of Erasmus MC. This reflects the multi-disciplinary nature of our MSc program.
Faculty members are internationally recognized scientists and educators, with an excellent record of publications in peer-reviewed top international life science journals. Several Faculty are members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and many are elected members of the European Molecular Biology Organization, or are involved in other international organizations such as the World Health Organization.
Members of our staff have won many awards and prizes, such as the: Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1993 and 1995), Spinoza Prize (1995 and 1998), Laqueur Lecture Award (1999), Mulder-Masurel Award (2000), Descartes-Huygens Prize (2000), Van Gogh Award (2000), EC-Descartes Award (2000), Josephine Nefkens Award (2001), and the ESCV Gardner Lecture Award (2002). MSc Faculty consistently obtain research funding from NWO, KNAW, NKB-KWF, NIH, EC, and many other funding bodies. Since 2002, they have been awarded 10 NWO – VIDI grants, and 6 NWO – VICI grants. As a lifetime achievement award, two of our Faculty members were appointed KNAW Academy Professor (in 2008 and 2011).
The MSc Faculty is experienced in training students and postdoctoral fellows to take on university faculty, medical school faculty, clinical laboratory and industrial biomedical research positions, both nationally and internationally. To date, more than 560 students have successfully finished their PhD under the supervision of one or more of our Faculty members.
