Prof. Dr. Nico Bos

About Nico Bos

Prof. Nicolaas Bos is a professor of Internationalization of education in the Medical Sciences. He is one of the three representatives of the University Medical Center Groningen, who is doing recruitment interviews on behalf of a large group of researchers at the UMCG interested in getting in contact of possible PhD candidates to write together a application for a CSC-fellowship.

His personal background research field is immunology and his line of research is dedicated to better understand humoral immune responses in immunocompromised patients such as patients with autoimmune diseases and transplant patients.

Next to that he is also the founder of the first English taught undergraduate medical program at the UMCG and he is doing research into the international learning environment.

About the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)

The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands and the largest employer in the Northern Netherlands.

More than 13,000 employees provide patient care, are involved in medical education and perform scientific research, from fundamental molecular research to clinical research.

Currently, PhD students come from more than 60 different countries and work in a very international environment. State of the art facilities and a very collaborative culture enable researchers to perform cutting edge research in the area of their interest, resulting in more than 2000 publications annually.