Early Career Research Prize for Eefje de Bont
Eefje de Bont, PhD candidate and GP trainee at the Department of Family Medicine, was awarded the Early Career Research Prize from the Society for Academic Primary Care.

Eefje de Bont, PhD candidate and GP trainee at the Department of Family Medicine, was awarded the Early Career Research Prize from the Society for Academic Primary Care.
1.5 million for research into the optimal use of new DNA diagnostics in prescribing cancer drugs
Gera was chosen as winner of the award because of her excellent research on socioeconomic differences in smoking and her knowledge-transfer efforts to translate tobacco control research to practice.
Kim Romijnders has won the ECL ECToH Best Poster Prize for her poster ‘A qualitative assessment of determinants of e-cigarette use in the Netherlands’.
Mickael Hiligsmann has been awarded as one of the recipients of the ESCEO-AGNOVOS HEALTHCARE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS during the WCO-IOF-ESCEO Congress 2017 in Florence on March 23-26, 2017.
Valedictory lecture Prof Thomas Unger, CARIM (MUMC + news).
The title was awarded in appreciation of Milena’s academic achievements in the field of health economics and policy and her pioneering work on formal and informal payments for health care services in the Central and Eastern European region.
Appointment of Jan Hoeijmakers, Erasmus MC (MUMC+ news).
ZonMw Grant for large-scale research into the quality of care in the final stage of dementia.
Wybo Dondorp, Associate Professor at the Department of Health, Ethics and Society, has been awarded the first prize of the European Journal of Human Genetics 2017.