TOP subsidy

• Prof. Frank den Hollander (MI) with TU Delft – €470,000 for ‘Duality for Interacting Particle Systems’
• Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck (STRW) – €470,000 euro for ‘Chemistry from clouds to planet-forming zones of disks with JWST-MIRI’
• Prof. Marc Koper (LIC) and Marcel Rost (LION) – €780,000 for ‘Structural Evolution of Electrocatalyst Surfaces in Action’
• Huub de Groot (LIC) – €780,000 for 'The molecular mechanism of long-range exciton transfer in chiral self-assembled supramolecular matrices'
• Hermen Overkleeft, Jeroen Codée en Johannes Aerts (LIC) – €780,000 for 'Design of conformational and covalent endoglycosidase inhibitors for biomedicine and biotechnology'

VENI – €250,000

• Alexander Muskutov (STRW) – The brightest neutron stars in the Universe
• Giovanni Rosotti (STRW) – Studying planet formation

VIDI – €800,000

• Dr. Stefan Semrau (LION) – The spark of life 
• Dr. Laura Heitman (LACDR) – Rethinking drug discovery 
• Dr. Irene Groot (LIC) – Looking at catalysts at an atomic scale

VICI – €1.5 million

• Prof. Mario van der Stelt (LIC) – Body’s own marijuana: where and when is it active?
• Prof. Roeland Merks (MI) – Mathematical insights into the repair of tumor vasculature 

Novel Antibacterial Compounds and Therapies Antagonizing Resistance (NACTAR)

• Prof. Gilles van Wezel (IBL) – €865,000 for ‘The lugdunomycins: a new class of polyketide antibiotics with unique chemical scaffold’

NWO Open Technology programme

• Prof. Marcellus Ubbing (LIC) received a NWO Open Technologieprogramma grant for ‘Thermostable Nanodisc platform for discovery and development of novel biopharmaceuticals’ 

• Michel Orrit (LION) received a NWO Open Technologieprogramma grant for ‘Wide-field Photothermal Imaging’ 

• Prof. Jan van Ruitenbeek is project leader of Controllable Graphene Nanogaps for single-molecule recognition

NWO Materials for Sustainability programme (Mat4Sus)

• Dr. Ludo Juurlink (LIC) received a Mat4Sus grant for ‘Capturing CO2 in formate’ 
• Dr. Dennis Hetterscheid (LIC) participates in UvA led project ‘Fuel from a greenhouse gas’ 

ECHO grant – €260,000

• Prof. Marcellus Ubbing (LIC) received an ECHO grant for ‘Evolutionary adaptability of β-lactamase: Generating resistance against inhibitors’ 
• Prof. John van Noort (LION) received an ECHO grant for ‘Linking Transcriptional Bursting to Chromatin Structure’ 

Physics Projectruimte

• Prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp (LION) received €600,000 for 'What is a measurement?' 
• Prof. Koenraad Schalm and prof. Johannes Zaanen (LION) received €392,000 for studying ‘strange metals’ 

NWO ZonMw

• Felienne Hermans (LIACS) receives €146,000 for 'Inclusive programming education for visually impaired children'    

National Roadmap for Large-Scale Infrastructure

• Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) is one of the project leaders of the X-omics initiative, which received 17 million euros
• Dorothea Samtleben (LION) participates in the project Neutrino telescope KM3NeT, which received 12.7 million euros
• Ariane Briegel en Bram Koster (IBL) participate in a consortium, which received 17 million euros to develop the Netherlands Electron Microscopy Infrastructure (NEMI)
• Leiden Observatory participates in the Dutch cluster Athena, which received 19.5 million euros for contributing to the European X-ray telescope 

NWO High Tech Systems and Materials

• Thomas Hankemeier and Alireza Mashaghi lead a LACDR research project, which received 1.08 million euros
• Tjerk Oosterkamp (LION) receives a HTSM Grant for the project A new method to measure fabrication induced surface spin densities

NWO Perspectief 

• Remko Offringa (IBL) leads one of the four research lines of LettuceKnow, which received 5.7 million euros
• Frans Snik and Christoph Keller (STRW) receive 1.09 million euros in the programme Synoptic Optics 
• Marc Koper (LIC) participates in the E2CB programme

EuroNanoMed – € 800,000

• Thomas Hankemeier and Yuliya Shakalisava (LACDR) received 800,000 for EXIT, to study Alzheimer's disease

European Commission – € 900,348

• Jan Slikkerveer received an Erasmus Plus grant for the project INTEM 

Marie Skolodowska Curie actions (MSCA)

• Rosaleen March (CML) – Remote sensing to model spatiotemporal distribution of functional diversity in the tundra 
• Marius Cautun (STRW) – Dancing with giants: dynamics of dwarf satellite galaxies
• Martin Baaske (LION) – Nanoscale thermo optical sensing
• Alessandro Sonnenfeld (STRW) – Accurate halo masses in the precision cosmology era 
• Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh (CML) – Nanomaterials: Role of particles size, shape and surface coating 

ERC Starting Grant – € 1.5 million

• Ben Wielstra (IBL) – Untangling the Evolution of a Balanced Lethal System
• Reinout van Weeren (STRW) – Unravelling the physics of particle acceleration and feedback in galaxy clusters and the cosmic web

ERC Consolidator Grant – € 2 million

• Simcha Jong Kon Chin (LIACS) – Project INSCONS: Addressing Global Challenges through International Scientific Consortia

Leiden University Fund (LUF) grant

• Stefano Cucurachi (CML) received €75,000 for 'One-Bag-at-a-Time. Assessing the efficacy and the impacts of policy interventions on the use, fate, and environmental impacts of disposable plastic carrier bags' 
• Coen van Hasselt (LACDR) received €20,000 for ‘Innovative dosing regimens to reduce antibiotic resistance development: an integrative experimental and computational pharmacology’
• Max van Duijn (LIACS) received €24,167 for 'A talking story: pilot study into the development of children as storytellers and mindreaders'

• The Hague going2Zero project, which includes LIACS, received €25,000 from the The Municipality of The Hague
• The Metabolism of Cities Hackathon, which includes CML, received €25,000 from the The Municipality of The Hague

• Botanical artist Esmée Winkel (IBL) received a gold medal from the British Royal Horticultural Society 
• Scott Waitukaitus (LION) wins the FYSICA Young Speakers Contest 
• Eric Eliel (LION) receives RISE prize for gender equality 
• Djordjo Milovic (MI) wins the Stieltjes prize for his PhD thesis 
• Stéphanie van der Pas (MI) received the Willem R. van Zwet Award for her thesis 
• Ewine van Dishoeck received the 2018 James Craig Watson Medal from the American National Academy of Sciences (NAS)  
• Nashwan Sabti (LION) wins the 2017 Hendrik Casimir Prize 
• Roland van der Veen received the Beckenbach Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• Rob van Wijk (LACDR) chosen as best speaker at LACDR Spring Symposium 

• Daniela Kraft (LION) wins Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year Award 
• Anthe Janssen (LIC) wins the Public's Choice Prize at the 5^th EFMC Young Medicinal Chemist Symposium 
• Wessel Kraaij (LIACS) jointly wins the Mark Everingham prize for TRECVid 
• Pedro Russo (STRW) wins the Mr. K.J. Cath Prize 
• Paper by LIC chosen as 2018 PCCP HOT article 
• Roxanne Kieltyka (LIC) elected as one of Talented 12 in chemistry 
• Koen van der Maaden (LACDR) won the poster prize at the 5th International conference on Microneedles in Vancouver
• Ionica Smeets (IBL) is chosen by TU Delft as Alumnus of the Year 2018
• Laura Heitman (LACDR) has received the 2018 EFMC runner-up prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia
• Laura Heitman (LACDR) has been nominated for the Prix Galien Research Award

• Michelle Spierings (IBL) has been awarded the Glushko Dissertation Prize 
• Thomas Bakkum and Tom van der Wel (LIC) win poster prizes at the EMBL Chemical Biology Conference 
• Davide De Mauro (CML) received the Stans Prize 2017 for his master’s thesis 
• Jelger Kroese, Danyi Lu and Edwin van der Heide (LIACS) win the ArtsIT Best Paper Award for 'BAI (摆): An Oscillating Sound Installation
• Rob van Wijk (LACDR) wins the PhD student competition of the FIGON's Dutch Medicines Days
• Adrian Hamers (STRW) wins the Christiaan Huygensprijs for his PhD thesis

• Rawi Ramautar (LACDR) joins the Power List 2018 of the Analytical Scientist
• Frank den Hollander (MI) wins the Humboldt Research Award
• Karina Ramijan and Anne van der Meij (IBL) win Poster Awards at the KNVM Spring Meeting 2018
• Marjo de Graauw (LACDR) and Marcello Bonsangue (LIACS) receive the Senior Teaching Qualification
• Hui Wang (LIACS) wins the Best Paper Award at BNAIC 2018
• City biologist Menno Schilthuizen (IBL) wins the Jan Wolkers Prize 2018 for his book 'Darwin Comes to Town'
• Mazène Hochane and Xueying Fan (LION) win LION Image Award 2018

• Martienke Baaij (IBL) receives the Kees Bakker Award 
• Ward Doelman (LIC) wins Unilever Research Prize 2017 for his master’s thesis 
• Anna Latour (LIACS) wins the second prize at KNVI Thesis Prize for Informatics 
• Pim Spelier en Bob Zwetsloot (MI) win medals at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students 2018
• Cyriel van Velzen receives his triple first-year diploma for Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy with the distinction cum laude

• Jong Talent Aanmoedigingsprijzen for students Alex Spieksma (MI), Maite Boden (LION), Maud van Boven (LIC), Pim Spelier (LIACS), Quinte Smitskamp (MST) and Linde Schoemaker (LACDR)
• Tim Rietbergen (IBL) receives the Janneke Fruin-Helb Scholarship from LUF
• Govert Brinkmann (LIACS) receives the second prize of the KNVI Thesis Award for Informatics
• Lukas Kiefer (IBL) wins the Unilever Research Prize 2018
• Student team iGEM Leiden wins a gold medal and prizes for Best Therapeutic Project and Best Model

The students from iGEM Leiden

• Matthijs van der Poel wins silver at the International Mathematical Olympiad
• Silver and bronze for Dutch girls at European Girl’s Mathematic Olympiade 
• Netherlands win golden medal at annivesary edition Benelux Mathematics Olympiad 

• HundrED selects IAU astroEDU (STRW) as a top 100 education innovation
• The master’s programme in Computer Science has been labelled as ‘Topopleiding’ by The Keuzegids Universiteiten 2018
• The bachelor's programme in Mathematics has been labelled as ‘Topopleiding’ by The Keuzegids Universiteiten 2018

• Nicole de Voogd (CML) has been appointed as Professor Global Change and Marine Ecosystems 
• Sense Jan van der Molen (LION) has been appointed as Professor Physics of Condensed Matter 
• Serge Fehr (MI) has been appointed as Professor Quantum Information Theory 
• Liesbeth De Lange (LACR) has been appointed as Professor of Predictive Pharmacology 
• Nathaniel Martin (IBL) has been appointed as Professor in Biological Chemistry

• Martina Vijver (CML) has been appointed as Professor of Ecotoxicology 
• Mario van der Stelt (LIC) has been appointed as Professor of Molecular Physiology
• Roeland Merks (IBL, MI) has received a full-time appointment as Professor of Mathematical Biology
• Erik Danen (LACDR) has been appointed as Professor of Cancer Drug Target Discovery 
• Jan Aarts (LION) has been appointed as Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute of Physics

• Marc Koper (LIC) has been appointed as President Elect of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)
• Ewine van Dishoeck (STRW) has been appointed in the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study 
• Wim van Saarloos (LION) takes office as KNAW President 
• Michel Orrit (LION) and Hermen Overkleeft (LIC) have been selected as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW 
• Carlo Beenakker (LION) has received an honorary doctorate in Kiev
• Prof. Wessel Kraaij (LIACS) has been appointed as Director of Data Science Research Programme

• im de Zeeuw (STRW) has been appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion 
• Niek Bavelaar (IBL) has been appointed as Member of the Order of Orange-Nassau 
• Dirk van Delft (STRW) has been appointed as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau 
• Jan Aarts (LION) has been appointed as Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion