Exchange Honours Master of Neurosciences

Every year the exam committee of three participating institutes (CNCR, Erasmus Department of Neurosciences and the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences, see hyperlinks above) will admit a selection of students to an exchange honours master program for second year students interested in the field of Neuroscience.

The aim of this program is to select master students with PhD potential and to provide these with an excellent research environment during the second year of master training and potentially a subsequent 3 or 4 year PhD- program. The exchange master program is unique in the Netherlands and one of the first ‘topmaster’ programs started. The program during this year will be highly personalized with tailor made training opportunities within some of the best neuroscience and genetics departments in the Netherlands and abroad. Only excellent students from the Master of Neurosciences programs of EUR or VUA (after 1 year of training) and/or similarly qualified students from other universities are admitted. We offer an internationally-oriented master program, specialized in neurosciences. We aim at an Integrative Neurosciences approach, which includes all levels of analysis from molecules up to behavior. The link from genes (genotype) to behavior (phenotype) will be studied in experimental animal models, whereas the reverse genetic approach requires human phenotyping in relation to genotyping and genetic epidemiology. In this kind of research environment, system neurosciences, neurophysiology and neurogenomics expertise meet. This is the case in all three participating institutes, and therefore our honours program provides an excellent training environment for future Ph.D. students in the Netherlands.



 
Class of 2010-2011


From left to right: bottom left, Jorim Tielbeek (currently in Australia), Jeffrey Stedehouder, Hemanth Mohan, Laura van Velzen, Shashini Munshi, Tim Kroon and Judith Suttrup.