Winners

Marian Joëls obtained her PhD in 1984 from Utrecht University under the supervision of David de Wied and Ivan Urban. She subsequently moved to the University of Texas Medical Branch, where she worked with Joel Gallagher and Patricia Shinnick-Gallagher. She later joined the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Floyd E. Bloom and George R. Siggins.

In 1991, she was appointed associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, where she was promoted to full professor in zoology in 1996. In 2009, she moved to Utrecht University, where she served as the director of the Rudolf Magnus Institute (RMI). In 2016, she was appointed dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Groningen and board member of the UMCG, a position she held until the end of 2022.