Leopold Meijler Prize 2025 for Jia Wen Liang

On Friday 13 March, the Leopold Meijler Prize 2025 was awarded to Jia Wen Liang,  pharmacy student of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, for her thesis & article entitled “Safety  Considerations for Natural Products with Adaptogenic and  Immunomodulating Activities.” Her supervisors were Herman Woerdenbag and Florence van Hunsel.

The Leopold Meijler Prize is awarded annually to a medical,  pharmacy, or health sciences student for the best thesis or  publication in the field of drug safety. The prize has existed since  2006 and is facilitated by the Leopold Meijler Fund. With this award,  we aim to stimulate students’ interest in drug safety, particularly in the occurrence of adverse drug reactions.

The prize is awarded to a student in Medicine, Pharmacy, or Health  Sciences at one of the Dutch universities who, in the opinion of the  award committee, has written the best thesis or published article in  the field of drug safety.

The prize was presented to her at the Pharmacy Department PharmacoTherapy, Epidemiology & Economics.