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On 13 May, NWO announced the winners of the 87 VIDI prizes of 800,000 euro. One of the winners is Bram Van Hofstraeten (Foundations and Methods of Law, Faculty of Law).

Dr Annemarie Koster (Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine) was installed by the Health Council of the Netherlands as a member of the committee that will develop the new Dutch physical activity guidelines on behalf of the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport.

Chris Evelo (ELIXIR Netherlands) is the new co-leader of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform, replacing Barend Mons, the Head of Dutch ELIXIR Node. Evelo joins Helen Parkinson (EMBL-EBI) and Carole Goble (ELIXIR UK) in leading the Interoperability Platform.

Interfaculty institute for systems biology research will focus on two research lines: systems medicine of chronic diseases and computational and systems neuroscience.

Dean FHML will head up the MRI scanner lab

Five UM students from the Dutch Law master’s programme were crowned the winners of the 2016 moot court competition on 18 May, organised by VAR ( Vereniging voor bestuursrecht).

KNAW has appointed sixteen new members, two of which are two UM professors: Karin Bijsterveld and André Klip.

The TERMIS-EU Council and the TERMIS-EU Awards Committee have awarded Dr. Lorenzo Moroni with the TERMIS-EU Young Scientist Award 2016.

John Penders (NUTRIM/CAPHRI) was awarded a Vidi-grant for his research project ‘Unwanted souvenirs’.

Jany Rademakers, endowed professor of Health Literacy and Patient Participation: “Not all patients can assume an active role.”