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Joep van den Bercken Prize awarded to best PhD thesis in toxicology
Frances Widjaja-van den Ende received the Joep van den Bercken Prize at the annual meeting of the Dutch Society of Toxicology, June 4-5, 2025. This prize is awarded annually to a recent graduate judged to have written the best PhD thesis in toxicology in the Netherlands.
On October 22, 2024, Frances defended her thesis entitled "Defining the Relative Potency of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid N-oxides by New Approach Methodologies”. According to the prize jury, the thesis demonstrates outstanding originality, scientific excellence and societal relevance. Receiving this award is a great achievement.