RIMLS PhD retreat was a great success

17 April 2018

Last week the 24th edition of the RIMLS PhD retreat was held at the Conference Centre Koningshof at Veldhoven. This event organized by and for PhD candidates of the RIMLS institute was a great success, exemplified by the enthusiasm of all attendees and the professional organization by the responsible PhD committee.

200 participants, including 5 PhD candidates from our collegial Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) in Barcelona presented their results, debated about sustainability and circular economy, and spent some time on social activities such as a back to the 90s party.  

All last year PhD candidates presented their results in an oral presentation, while all other participants shared their results or research plans during a poster presentation. A jury consisting of six researchers evaluated all presentations. Their anonymous opinion was that the overall quality of all presentations and especially the oral presentations was remarkably high. All presenters can be genuinely proud of their achievements.  

The keynote speaker of this year was Louise Vet. She gave an inspiring lecture entitled: What a ‘waste’! Let’s learn from nature!

The RIMLS management team would like to thank the participants, the jury members, workshop leader, keynote speaker, and the debaters. Above all, we would like to thank the organizing committee: Jasper van Beek, Estel Collado Camps, Paola de Haas, Daan Panneman, Bas van der Schoot, Caroline Sieverink and Xander Staal.

We hope to welcome you next year at the PhD retreat 2019!  Mark your calendar for the 25th special edition of the PhD retreat on 14 and 15 March 2019. Moreover there will be a special event on the evening of 13 March. More information will follow.

Winners of the best oral presentation:

• Jorrieke Weiden, theme Cancer development and immune defence. Title: Biomaterial-based scaffolds improve delivery of therapeutic nanoparticle cancer vaccines to dendritic cells 
• Marti Boss, theme Rare cancers. Title: 68Ga-NODAGA-exendin-4 PET/CT for the localization of insulinomas: preliminary data from a prospective multicenter imaging study.

Winner of the best poster presentation:

Felix Fenneman, theme Nanomedicine.

The photos are online via this link!