Amsterdam institute for Immunology and Infectious diseases

Grant Committee

The AI&I Grant Committee supports researchers in carrying out innovative projects within AI&I. Together with the institute’s management, the committee issues calls, evaluates applications, and establishes the key evaluation criteria to foster research quality and support emerging young talent. Based on these criteria, the committee advises management on which projects should be funded.

Our grants foster talent and collaboration, for example:

• Travel grant - for PhD students to attend international conferences, build their CVs, and expand professional networks
• Collaboration grant - encourages collaboration between research groups from different departments
• Work visit grant - supports early-career researchers (PhD's, postdocs and technicians) during short research visits abroad
• Postdoc & Clinical research grants - assist postdocs and clinical researchers with innovative projects and future grant applications

Flexible and adaptive focus

Each year, the committee and management decide which goals are most relevant for the available budget:

• Promoting collaboration - between research groups, different stakeholders, or other institutes
• Personal support - between research groups, different stakeholders, or other institutes

In this way, AI&I grants contribute to talent development, strengthened collaborations within Amsterdam UMC research groups and foster cross-border collaboration with international universities. They support successful execution of research and enhance academic quality, regardless of the challenges or changing circumstances that researchers may face.

See here for the current AI&I grant offerings and here all grants awarded in recent years.

Committee members:

Chair: Dr. Joke den Haan
Members: Dr. Elena Rampanelli, Dr. Marten Hoeksema, Dr. Lia van der Hoek. Dr. Kees van 't Veer, Dr. Lieuwe Bos, Dr. IR. Nicole van der Wel, Dr. ING. Sandra van Vliet, Dr. Marieke Fransen