The Amsterdam UMC Young Talent Fund is enabled by Amsterdam UMC Foundation and wants the very best young talents to have a chance to further develop and improve themselves. The goal is to enable young excellent PhD candidates to do an internship or follow courses at one of the top international research institutes anywhere in the world
"The most vital moment in my research career? No doubt my visit to this top institute in my research field when I was still a young researcher. What I saw and learned there has been crucial for myself and my career in science."
* statement former winner Young Talent Fund
Deadline for application
Term & deadline for application: 1 September 2024 to 31 December 2024, 23.59. Please send the relevant documents to the Doctoral School.
PhD candidates in the beginning of their PhD trajectory and registered with the Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School are eligible to apply. The maximum grant is € 5.000. A special selection committee assesses all applications.
These awards will be announced during the Science & Awards Day 2025 (7 March 2025)
Instructions and application form:
Testimonial
Since the start of the fund in 2012, more than a hundred PhD candidates have been awarded a travel grant. One of the grants is enabled by the Louise Gunning Public Health Study Fund. Its goal is to enable a young Amsterdam UMC researcher to follow a course or summer school in the field of Public Health at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, USA
Enclosed are a few reports a report from winners of the Amsterdam UMC Young Talent Fund in 2023: