Subject to certain conditions, the Netherlands Association for the Study of the Liver will pay an amount of €500 towards the cost of printing dissertations. This arrangement is intended to support trainee research assistants (or researchers on a similar salary). Details of the sponsorship conditions are set out below.
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Conditions:
- The applicant must have been a member of the Netherlands Association for the Study of the Liver for at least two years at the time of the public defense of the dissertation. The date on which they were registered is taken as the date of commencement of their membership.
- The applicant must be a PhD candidate (AIO/OIO) or hold a position with a comparable salary.
- The dissertation must concern a basic or clinical hepatology-related subject. This will be jointly assessed by the Secretary and the Treasurer.
- The research (or parts thereof) must have been presented during sessions of the Dutch Association for Hepatology at the Veldhoven meetings or during the Dutch Liver Retreat.
- The application must be submitted at least two months prior to the PhD defense and should be accompanied by a short summary (approx. 300 words), written in press-release style and understandable to non-specialists. Once granted, the summary will be published on the members-only section of the NVH website and in De Lever.
- The sponsorship by the NASL must be acknowledged in the dissertation.
The applicant can demonstrate the hepatological nature of the thesis if:
- Sections of the thesis have been published in hepatological journals, or in hepatological sections of gastroenterological journals;
- The results described in the thesis have been presented at hepatological conferences (AASLD, EASL) or at hepatological sessions of gastroenterological congresses (AGA/DDW, UEGW).
