Sanne, Jan-Willem, Veronia, Niels and Esbar receive prestigious awards
Awards for Pharmaceutical Sciences students
Sanne van de Looij and Jan-Willem Langenbach started their master programme Drug Innovation in 2020. They were also selected for the honours programme from the Graduate School Life Sciences.
At the end of her study Sanne was awarded the Unilever research prize 2022 on 24 November for a master thesis, titled 鈥The Extracellular Vesicle Surfaceosome: Pilot studies for determination of CD9 and FN1 function in uptake and intracellular cargo release" supervised by dr. Pieter Vader () and an excellent writing assignment, titled 鈥Injectable Hydrogels for Sustained Delivery of Extracellular Vesicles in Cartilage Regeneration鈥 supervised by prof.dr.ir. Tina Vermonden of the Pharmaceutics division of the Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences.

And Jan-Willem was awarded the dr. Saal van Zwanenberg onderzoeksprijs (first prize) for his master thesis, titled 鈥'Fighting food allergies: Synthesis of structures co-presenting a T-cell epitope and Siglec ligand to reprogram dendritic cells鈥 supervised by prof.dr. Geert-Jan Boons from the division. Professor emeritus Bert Leufkens was allowed to hand out the prize at the on 28 November 2022.

At the same meeting Veronia Nasralla, bachelor student pharmacy, received from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Maatschappij ter bevordering der Pharmacie an 鈥淎anmoedigingsprijs Farmacie of (bio)farmaceutische wetenschappen鈥 for the best 鈥減ropedeuse鈥 students. We hope to see more of her in future years.

Earlier this year, Niels Reijnhout, master student Pharmacy, received on 11 October the KNMP student award, for his achievements in this study as well as his second study of Health Economics, Policy and Law at Erasmus University. He was also active in the student society UPSV and in a student led not-for-profit consultancy.

And finally, on December 10, Esbar Hassan, master student Pharmacy, has won the Dutch championship Pharmaceutical consultation in Zeist, made possible by the KNMP. She will now represent the Netherlands at the 2023 IPSF world congress in Bali.