The KNCV has organised the Gouden Spatel award for the best higher education thesis in the field of chemistry every year since 1982. During an official award ceremony, the winner receives the award and a prize of € 1,000. Two second prizes are also awarded, consisting of a certificate and € 250 each.
The finalists for the Golden Master Award 2025 have been announced!
After extensive deliberation, the jury has chosen three finalists from all entries. We will announce the winner at the Evening of Chemistry on 15 October in Nijmegen. The three finalists, in alphabetical order, are:
- Ghazal Alhassan, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
'Characterization of macrophages derived from BMPR2 mutant induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension' - Chantal Elö, Zuyd hogeschool
'Recyclable bio-based alkyd resins' - Pauline Schiks, Fontys University of Applied Sciences
'Characterization of nanobodies using Biosensing by Particle Motion'
The winner of the 'Gouden Spatel 2024' is Mitan Kadir (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen).
Mitan did a research entitled 'Development of a Lipidomic Workflow to Identify and Quantify Phospholipids using Electron-Activated Dissociation and Liquid Chromatography Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry'
The second prizes were for:
- Kylian van Haarlem, Hogeschool Utrecht
'Method Development of Multiplex qPCR for Quantification of Host Cell DNA in Lentivirus Vector' - Femke Volker, Hogeschool Utrecht
'Do Obesity-Associated MRAP2 Variants Modulate the MRAP2 Function in MC4R or GHSR1a Signaling'
This prize is made possible by de Gemeente Oss.
More information on the 'Gouden Spatel':
