NUTRIM NWO Graduate Programme

In 2012 the research school NUTRIM successfully obtained a prestigious grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the graduate programme “Metabolism and chronic disease”. With this grant four very talented students were appointed in 2013, and during the following years more PhD students were appointed.

In contrast to the regular PhD trajectory the applicants for the graduate programme were offered the opportunity to propose their own topic, research proposal and supervisors, optimally using the available infrastructure and expertise within NUTRIM and our international research network. Obviously the project had to fit within the “Metabolism and chronic disease” framework.

The programme has been discontinued end 2019.

The 2018 winners:

• Sten van Beek - Targeting a novel, insulin-independent pathway to improve skeletal muscle glucose uptake in humans.

• Merel Aberle - Cancer associated fibroblasts: the link between cancer cachexia and poor anti-cancer treatment response.

• Johanna Kreutz - Intestinal barrier dysfunction in celiac disease etiology; Cracks in the wall – enough to make the dam break

• Rianne Willemsen - From Head to Toe: Personalized management in Head and Neck Cancer Cachexia. A NUTRIM / GROW collaboration.