Leiden International Medical Student Conference

The Leiden International Medical Student Conference (LIMSC) is the largest student conference in Europe, hosted by the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and organized by (bio)medical students from the Leiden Medical Student Association. LIMSC aims to let students from all over the world experience and be exposed to high-level research and have the possibility to interact and learn from the current leading figures in the academic world. Furthermore an extensive Career & Internship Fair will provide possibilities for international internships and career perspectives.

Location
The conference is held at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in Leiden, Netherlands. The LUMC is located right next to Leiden Central Railway Station. The LUMC consists of three interconnected buildings on the hospital/medical campus: the hospital, the research center and the education center.

History
Since its first edition in 1999, LIMSC has grown into an internationally acknowledged and well-respected event. The 2013 edition welcomed over 550 visitors, whereof 350 from abroad.

Previous Winners
2005, 4th LIMSC. First Prize Oral Presentation: Crispin Hiley, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, "Relationship between VEGF expression and prostate cancer outcome following radical radiotherapy". 2011, 7th LIMSC. First Prize Oral Presentation: Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani, university of Heidelberg, Germany, "The Role of PINCH Proteins for cardiac contractility by modulating Akt/PKB Signaling". 2013, 8th LIMSC. First Prize Oral Presentation: Giovanni Borso, University of Padova, Italy, '' Preventing aberrant wound healing using micro-patterned silicone dressing. ''

Seventh edition of LIMSC
The seventh edition of LIMSC took place in Leiden, Netherlands on March 16–20, 2011. Students could participate in LIMSC either as a presenting or as a visiting participant. Students from all over the world were invited to submit an abstract of their research. In the 2011 edition, over 750 students submitted abstracts about a wide variety of (bio)medical topics, ranging from internal medicine and public health to molecular cell biology and cardiology. A blinded committee of thirteen highly motivated clinicians and researchers of the LUMC, selected the 200 best abstracts. This selection was based on the quality of research, the originality of the research, and the quality of the abstract. The best 120 students were invited to give an oral presentation and the remaining 80 students gave a poster presentation. These presenting students came from 42 different countries (Netherlands 27, United Kingdom 23, Iran 20, Russia 11, Ukraine 10, India 9, Poland 8, Indonesia 7, Germany 6, Serbia 6, Portugal 5, Romania 5, United States 4, Bulgaria 4, ...). The best conference award went to Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani from university of Heidelberg, Germany for his presentation "The Role of PINCH Proteins for cardiac contractility by modulating Akt/PKB Signaling".

Eighth edition of LIMSC
The eighth edition of LIMSC took place from the March 13th until March 17, 2013, in Leiden in the Leiden University Medical center (LUMC). 620 abstracts from 45 different countries were submitted. After a blind selection by the Scientific Committee, the 200 best students were invited to present their research at LIMSC. The best conference award went to Giovanni Borso, University of Padova, Italy, for his presentation '' Preventing aberrant wound healing using micro-patterned silicone dressing. ''

Ninth edition of LIMSC
The ninth edition of LIMSC will take place from 11th - 15th March 2015, in the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). More information about registration and submission of abstract will follow soon. Do you want to stay updated about LIMSC 2015? Subscribe here for the newsletter.

Ambassadors
LIMSC works with ambassadors to promote the congress all over the world. As an ambassador you have the task to inform all the students on your faculty about LIMSC and try to get as much students as possible to the congress in March 2015. To help you doing this you receive a package with promotional materials and an instruction about what to do with all the materials. Without ambassadors, LIMSC would not be as big as it is nowadays. Are you interested in becoming an ambassador? Please sent an email to the address on our website.

Partners
LIMSC sustains contacts with a couple of other organizations, of which some we consider partners. Most of these contacts consist of partner conferences that offer about the same quality as LIMSC.
 * Medical Student Conferences in the Netherlands:
 * BIC (Biomedical Interfacultary Congress), Utrecht
 * MIC (Medical Student Conference), Utrecht
 * ISCOMS (International Student Congress of Medical Sciences), Groningen
 * MOSA conference Maastricht


 * International Medical Student Conferences:
 * Yes meeting, Porto
 * BRAINCOMS (Brazilian International Congress of Medical Students), São Paulo
 * ICMS, Sofia
 * European Students Conference, (ESC) Meeting, Berlin
 * Medicalis Cluj Napoca, Romania