Each year, PhD candidates have the possibility to request a contribution of €250 from AGEM for the printing costs of their thesis. As a result, over 100 PhD theses have been printed with help from AGEM since 2020.
2025
So far, in 2025, AGEM awarded 12 PhD candidates with a contribution to the printing costs of their theses.
| Laureates | Title of PhD thesis |
|---|---|
| Eva Verheij | Optimizing and personalizing Barrett’s neoplasia management: facilitating future transition |
| Anne-Sophie van Rijswijk | Bariatric and metabolic surgical care in daily practice |
| Tessa Dieckman | Refractory Celiac Disease: from basic insights to therapy |
| Marte Becker | Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Beyond the Bowel |
| Djuna de Jong | The Ileal Pouch in IBD: Unraveling the Complexities |
| Kim Beek | Advances in MRI for Crohn’s disease complications |
| Jelmer Jukema | Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Endoscopy of Barrett's Esophagus |
| Eline Eskes | Chronic visceral Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency: Paving the way to biomarker development |
| Celine Busch | Endoscopic duodenal ablation for the treatment of type 2 diabetes; New insights and techniques |
| David Trampert | Pathogenic insights into immune-mediated sclerosing cholangiopathies: From autoantibody formation to cholangiocellular defence mechanisms |
| Ayano Shiba | THE CLOCK IS RUNNING - Effects of Timed Exercise and Food intake on the Circadian Timing System in the Rat |
| Melanie Benard | Microbial Alchemy in Ulcerative Colitis: Crafting the recipe for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation |
2024
In 2024, AGEM awarded 25 PhD candidates with a contribution to the printing costs of their theses.
| Laureates | Title of PhD thesis |
|---|---|
| Margo Slomp | Decoding the control of food intake: Insights from the habenula and hypothalamus |
| Serhii Chornyi | Peroxisomal Homeostasis of Metabolites and Cofactors Required for Lipid Metabolism |
| Moritz Warmbrunn | A Kick in the Guts: Insulin resistance, Gut Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Diseases |
| Roni Kunst | Modulating the enterohepatic circulation in cholestatic and metabolic liver diseases: therapeutic perspectives |
| Cunera de Beaufort | Anorectal malformations - a complex disease in need of a multidisciplinary approach |
| Floris van den Brand | Therapeutic and prognostic aspects of autoimmune hepatitis |
| Felipe Corrêa da Silva | Hypothalamic Cellular Changes in Neuroendocrine Disorders - Human Postmortem Studies |
| Anne ten Hove | Intestinal innervation and its role in mucosal damage and inflammation |
| Jasmijn Jagt | Paediatric Inflammatory Bowl Disease: moving towards tailored diagnostic and treatment approaches |
| Heleen Jansen | Diagnosing Thyroid Disease: pitfalls and improvement in laboratory measurements |
| Koos de Wit | Risk factors and therapeutic interventions for decompensated cirrhosis affecting the gut-liver-brain axis |
| Nienke van Olst | Heterogeneity within bariatric surgery & Abdominal pain: the dark side of bariatric surgery |
| Tim Kortlever | Algorithms in colorectal cancer screening |
| Remco Kersten | Cholangiocellular defense mechanisms in IgG4-related cholangitis |
| Eline van der Does de Willebois | Tailored surgery in ileocecal Crohn's disease |
| Sabrina Oussaada | Beyond the scale: exploring novel treatment strategies and health impacts of obesity |
| Katy van Galen | Brain responses to variations in nutritional state |
| Soumia Majait | Bile and bugs: Unraveling the postprandial response of bile acids and gut microbiota in (inherited) metabolic diseases |
| Iman Hu | Boosting stress responses to promote healthy aging |
| Jeska Fritzsche | (Pre)malignant lesions of the biliary tree: Beyond conventional endoscopic management |
| Melek Simsek | Thioguanine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Finding Hidden Treasures in Old Drugs |
| Frouwkje Politiek | Mechanisms underlying inflammation in mevalonate kinase deficiency |
| Jamie van Son | From gut to brain: Exploring mechanisms and therapeutic targets of obesity |
| Sebastian Hendrix | A new SPRING in lipid metabolism: Blooming of a novel post-transcriptional SREBP regulator |
| Claire van Helsdingen | Colorectal anastomotic leakage: unraveling a multifaceted complication |
2023
In 2023, AGEM awarded 28 PhD candidates with a contribution to the printing costs of their theses.
| Laureates | Title of PhD thesis |
|---|---|
| Torsten Scheithauer | The Gut Microbiota: A driver of type 2 diabetes |
| Irina Milanova | Microglial Heterogeneity in obesity |
| Robyn Rexwinkel | Pediatric Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders from diagnosis to management – a clinical approach |
| Charlotte Verburgt | Unravelling the microbiome in Paediatric Crohn's Disease | A journey towards personalised therapy |
| Tineke de Jong | Premature aging of the stromal microenvironment in rheumatoid arthritis |
| Myrthe Gorris | Innovations in diagnosis and management of pancreatobiliary diseases |
| Tessel van Rossen | Microbial markers for prediction of clinical outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal diseases |
| Anne-Marieke van Dijk | Navigating NAFLD Non-invasively: Ingredients to shape future care paths in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease |
| Ulrika Boulund | Exploring High Dimensional Data in Health and Disease: from genome to microbiome |
| Veera Houttu | Dissecting the interplay of exercise, gut microbiota and NAFLD |
| Jayron Habibe | The Emerging Role of FHL2 in Metabolism |
| Thomas Dierikx | Antibiotics and microbiota colonization in infancy: what lessons can we learn? |
| Aline Fenneman | Exploring the Gut-Thyroid Axis: The role of the microbiome in thyroid autoimmunity |
| Robin Erken | Towards a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B |
| David van Toledo | From bycatch to target: Pathogenesis and clinical implications of the serrated pathway to colorectal cancer |
| Adriaan Volkers | Alternatives in the management of inflammatory bowel disease |
| Lieke Beltman | Improving the outcomes of patients with Hirschsprung Disease through greater understanding of the histopathology |
| Tessel Boertien | Novel diagnostics and therapeutic options in pituitary adenoma: an enlightening approach |
| Jacqueline Langedijk | The Mechanisms of Cholestasis-Associated Itch |
| Kiki Fockens | Advanced Imaging and Artificial Intelligence for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy |
| Klaartje de Bruijn | Pediatric Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders: Management and Future Perspectives |
| Anne Linde Mak | Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: A wide-angled perspective on a multifaceted problem |
| Ishtu Hageman | Novel biomarkers to guide therapy in chronic inflammatory diseases |
| Alicia Furumaya | Benign Liver Tumours and Cysts: Uncovering hidden burden and risks |
| Sara van Gennep | Towards Optimal Care in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Thiopurines, tofacitinib and impact on working life |
| Koen Wortelboer | Faecal Matters: How Transplanting Gut Bacteria and their Viruses Impacts Cardiometabolic Disease |
| Nadine van Huijgevoort | Pancreatobiliary Diseases: Improving diagnosis and outcomes |
| Vincent Joustra | Pharmaco-epigenetic biomarkers and optimization of post-operative management in inflammatory bowel disease |
2022
In 2022, AGEM awarded 23 PhD candidates with a contribution to the printing costs of their theses.
| Laureates | Title of PhD thesis |
|---|---|
| Kyra van Rijn | MRI for Gastrointestinal Diseases: Advances in assessment of small bowel motility and perianal Crohn’s disease |
| Elsa van Wassenaer | Non-invasive monitoring & treatment strategies in paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| Renske Oude Nijhuis | Moving forward: new insights into esophageal motility disorders |
| Laura Tseng | Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy: Towards newborn screening |
| Sylke Haal | Prevention of symptomatic gallstone disease after bariatric surgery |
| Lotte Boxhoorn | Multidisciplinary management of severe acute pancreatitis |
| Esther Klaver | Towards improved risk stratification in Barrett’s esophagus |
| Sanne van Munster | Esophageal neoplasia revisited | Risk stratification, treatment, and long-term outcomes |
| Abraham Hulst | Glucose control therapies in the perioperative period |
| Britt Houwen | Human-machine collaboration | Improving endoscopic detection and characterization of colorectal neoplasia |
| Shafaque Rahman | Cross-talk between microbiota and immune responses in inflammatory bowel disease |
| Manon de Krijger | Gut-liver interactions in primary sclerosing cholangitis and inflammatory bowel disease |
| Paul Vollebregt | Disorders of continence and defaecation | insights into risk factors, underlying pathophysiology and treatment |
| Rebecca McIntyre | Pharmaceutical and genetic interventions to understand mechanisms of aging in C. Elegans |
| Maria del Pilar Clemente Olivo | The role of FHL2 in metabolism |
| Floris de Voogd | Point-of-care ultrasonography for the monitoring of inflammatory bowel disease |
| Mohammed Ghiboub | Targeting the Immune Epigenome in Crohn's Disease |
| Laura Draijer | Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children | towards an effective screening strategy |
| Isabelle van Thiel | Fungal feelings | The gut microbiome in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| Lotje van Ruiten | Effects of SGLT2 inhibition and GLP-1 receptor agonism on the regulation of food intake and body weight |
| Jeroen Schuitenmaker | Left is right | the effect of sleep position on nocturnal gastroesophageal reflux |
| Maimoena Guman | Gallstones and other gastrointestinal complications after bariatric surgery |
| Tom van den Bosch | Mathematical modelling in oncology | a heterogeneous subject |
2021
In 2021, AGEM awarded 20 PhD candidates with a contribution to the printing costs of their theses.
| Laureate | Title of PhD thesis |
|---|---|
| Marit Navis | Gut maturation: From in vitro to in vivo models, and the impact of early life nutrition |
| Joyce Veld | Treatment of obstructive colon cancer: a shifting paradigm |
| Sem Aronson | Gene therapy for inherited jaundice |
| Emma Meessen | Postprandial human bile acids – a gut feeling |
| Josephine Tan | A Delicate Balance: Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Intracellular Cholesterol Metabolism |
| Ana Pop | Functional analysis of genetic variants: contribution to the diagnosis of inherited metabolic diseases |
| Stan Ursem | The PTH-FGF23-Vitamin D axis: new insights regarding oxidation and metabolism |
| Xiaoxia Shi | New avenues in gene therapy for inherited liver disease |
| Sophie Lodenstijn | Intestinal- and pancreatic stem cell dynamics during homeostasis and disease |
| Florien Westendorp | Intestinal Fibroblasts in inflammation and cancer |
| Victorine Roos | Optimizing detection and management of familial and hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes |
| Kevin Stroek | Optimization of established and assessment of novel newborn screening strategies in the Netherlands |
| Sophie Bosch | Catching wind of non-invasive biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer |
| Jonathan van der Meer | Intestinal wound healing: Modulation by enteric and mesenteric factors |
| Marileen Prins | Autophagy and Crohn’s disease: Opportunities in personalised medicine |
| Christel de Blok | Let’s talk about breasts: Breast care in transgender people from an internal medicine perspective |
| Lowiek Hubers | IgG4-related disease of the biliary tract and pancreas: Catching a great mimicker |
| Sanne van Neerven | On the origin of Colorectal Cancer: Cell competition in the intestine |
| Annieke van Baar | Endoscopic duodenal hydrothermal ablation for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| Fernando Cazarez Marquez | Integrating reproduction and energy metabolism: a round way trip via RF-amide peptides |
2020
In 2020, AGEM awarded 12 PhD candidates with a contribution to the printing costs of their theses.
| Laureate | Title of PhD thesis |
|---|---|
| Jeroen de Groof | New strategies for endoscopic recognition of Barrett neoplasia |
| Yasmine Liu | Modulating diet and mitochondria to promote longevity |
| Leonie de Vries | Janus kinase inhibition in the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| Marte Molenaars | ‘Mitochondrial Communication Is Key’ Cross-Compartmental Signals Maintaining Proteostasis And Longevity |
| Martin Kalsbeek | Neuron-glia interactions in patients with type2 diabetes |
| Monique Appelman | Molecular insight into the bile acid transporter NTCP |
| Felicia Bloemendaal | Macrophages as a therapeutic target in inflammatory bowel disease, lessons learned from anti-TNF therapy. |
| Sandra van de Wiel | Intestinal transport and signaling of bile salts, A focus on OSTα-OSTβ |
| Arne Bleijenberg | The serrated neoplasia pathway to colorectal cancer: Molecular biology and clinical management |
| Bart Meijer | Maintenance and disruption of intestinal epithelial homeostasis |
| Judith Zeevenhooven | Unravelling functional abdominal pain disorders from infancy to adolescence; insights into epidemiology, diagnostics and treatment |
| Emmeline Peters | Implications of Postoperative Ileus, from experimental to clinical studies |