The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Rubicon grant to 21 young researchers. The programme aims to give promising scientists the change to do research abroad.
Kai Lui (Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials) will conduct research at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Liu will develop miniscule particles of a new type of material in which cells can easily grow into structured tissues.
Olga Sin (from the GUIDE research institute) will spend two years at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Germany. She will investigate how defective protein production is linked to neurogenerative disease.
Financing
More than 70 researchers applied for one of the grants. How much funding each of the 21 lucky researchers will receive is dependent upon their chosen destination and how long they will spend abroad. Annually, NWO can provide seven million euros for roughly 60 Rubicon grants, split up among three rounds.