Project grants awarded in 2024
The Leiden University Fund (LUF) Committee for Academic Expenditure (CWB) has an annual project grant round in March for teaching and research projects up to 35,000 euros. This is made possible by the donors of the LUF, the Praesidium Libertatis I Foundation and the collaboration of the LUF with the Gratama-Stichting and the Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds.
The CWB received 58 applications for a LUF project grant for its meeting in March. All applications have been assessed on, among other things, the scientific importance and innovative character of the project, the clarity of the problem definition and the quality of the chosen methodology. Partly based on the available funds, and for some of the applications the judgment of external foundations, 25 applications could be honored.
The awards for each fund are given below:
Gratama-Stichting/Leiden University Fund
- Virginie Stévenin, (Medicine/LUMC), Micro-Architects: Using micropatterns to determine how pathogens reorganize their host cells, € 35.000
- Jelte Krol, (Medicine/LUMC), Genetic engineering of malaria vaccine to increase immune cell stimulation, € 35.000
- Susana Valdez, (Humanities), Through Migrants' Eyes: Exploring readers' reception of human and machine-translated health information (MigrantHealth), € 35.597
- Jordy Meekes, (Law), The role of peer effects in gender inequalities in the labour market, € 25.000
- Amandine Lerusse, (Governance and Global Affairs), Towards sustainable policymaking: Increasing politicians' use of scientific evidence to address climate change, € 29.400
Stichting Elise Matilde Fonds/Leiden University Fund
- Niels van den Berg, (Medicine/LUMC), Understanding the role of genetic cardio-metabolic risk factors in familial longevity, € 34.880
- Aleksandrina Skvortsova, (Social and Behavioural Sciences), Mind Over Meal: Unraveling placebo effects on hunger, food-related brain activity and food choice in normal-weight individuals and overweight individuals seeking to lose weight, € 35.000
- Bianca Boyer (Social and Behavioural Sciences), Improving Self-esteem of Adolescents with ADHD, € 35.000
- Christina Toenshoff (Social and Behavioural Sciences), Testing the Effects of Physical Climate Risks on Companies' Climate Lobbying, € 31.186
- Cristina Del Real (Governance and Global Affairs), Unlock the cyber crisis: Developing the prototype of an escape room-style cooperative game for cybersecurity education, € 34.965
Den Dulk-Moermans Fund
- Suk Wai Lam, (Medicine/LUMC), Deep learning to improve diagnostics of osteofibrous dysplasia (OFD), OFD-like adamantinoma and classic adamantinoma, € 35.000
- Gertjan Lugthart, (Medicine/LUMC), Early Reconstitution of Lymphocytes Predicting Immune Mediated Events, € 35.000
- Winnie van den Boogaard, (Medicine/LUMC), Modelling genetic inner ear hearing loss: development of hiPSC-derived inner ear organoids harboring GJB2 mutations, € 35.000
Dr. F.F. Hofman Fund
- Seng Liem, (Medicine/LUMC), De rol van de endoscopieverpleegkundige bij het opleiden in niet-technische vaardigheden in de endoscopie-opleiding, € 35.000
- Bram van Os, (Medicine/LUMC), Unraveling the Interplay: Investigating the Role of Fibroblasts in the Pathogenesis of Crohn's Disease Fistulas to find novel Therapeutic Interventions, € 35.000
Chastelain-Nobach Fund
- Ian Simpson, (Archaeology), Religion and Exchange in Late Antique Urban Markets (5-9th Centuries CE), € 9.952
Frans Arnold Natural Sciences Fund
- Mark Aarts, (Science), Ionic Force Microscopy, € 20.000
Bakels Fund
- Rachel Schats, (Archaeology), One night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury - An osteological reassessment of syphilis and its treatment in human skeletal remains from the Oude en Nieuwe Gasthuis (1433-1652 CE) in Delft, the Netherlands, € 10.000
Mulder-Hamelers Fund
- Lisa Koorneef, (Medicine/LUMC), The start of a new era in neuroendocrine research: proof of concept for the control of growth hormone, € 35.000
Prof.dr. A.W. Byvanck Fund/Leiden University Fund
- Mark Driessen, (Archaeology), Qasr Bshir Conservation Project, € 9.606
Schild-de Groen Fund
- Noortje de Haan, (Medicine/LUMC), Cracking the Glycan Code of Colorectal Cancer: Towards New Therapeutic Targets, € 35.000
Leiden University Fund
- Jorian Sepers, (Medicine/LUMC), Unraveling the 'dark' genome using single-cell technology, € 25.000
- Robin van Eenige, (Medicine/LUMC), Overgewicht en hart- en vaatziekten behandelen door wit vetweefsel vetten te laten verbranden?, € 35.000
- Remko Goossens, (Medicine/LUMC), Functional in vitro modelling of Duchenne AON therapies using 3D muscle bundles, € 35.000
- Janine Melsen, (Medicine/LUMC), Unmasking human natural killer cell development and selection: connecting the dots, € 34.233