Applied Biosciences & Chemistry

Together with your organization, we train your future employees or retrain your existing staff. Would you like to collaborate with us in education? Below you will find the possibilities.

Internship and graduation

Do you have an interesting internship project to offer? Or are you more generally interested in hiring students from our school? Then read the information in the PDF, fill out the registration form and sent it to us. We look forward to hearing from you!

Internship information
Registration form

More information:
Email stage.atbc@han.nl

Are you looking for information on an internship placement for our master program Molecular Life Sciences. Check this factsheet.

Want to know more? Send us an email: stage.atbc@han.nl

The School of Applied Biosciences and Chemistry offers the following degree programs:

English-taught

Bachelor Chemistry

Bachelor Life Sciences

Bachelor Molecular Biosciences (joint degree with University of Dundee)

Master in Molecular Life Sciences (fulltime and part-time)

Dutch-taught

Bachelor in Bio-informatics

Bachelor in Life Sciences

Bachelor in Chemistry

Bachelor in Chemistry (part-time)
Several times a year, representatives from the work field and HAN meet in the Professional Advisory Committee. They help us think about the content of our curriculum to ensure that it continues to meet the changing needs of our students’ future employers.

More information:
contact.atbc@han.nl
Students greatly appreciate the presence of guest lecturers and find that it adds clear value to their education. Anyone can be a guest lecturer and tell our students about work or a career from their own expertise. Our students are eager to hear your story and would love to take a look at your research. Would you like to teach a class or share your knowledge with us? If so, please contact us.

More information:
contact.atbc@han.nl
Keeping our education as up to date as possible requires us to integrate more closely with the professional field. To best prepare students for their future, our programs include projects in which students work on assignments from current research for six months during their regular education.

Lecturers, researchers and students work together on projects for institutions such as Radboud university medical center, Vanderbilt University and the University of Oxford. Various external researchers and institutions are already involved in our current education. They provide research questions and specific expertise for education, or they donate materials. The most important thing is the sharing of knowledge.

More information:
contact.atbc@han.nl

Curiosity

Students are used to and keen to learn new knowledge. If they discover they don't know enough about topics related to your problem, they will search for it. Students are also part of a knowledge institution, which means they can get information from various experts, such as lecturers and professors.

Fresh perspective

Students are not yet influenced by the work field. They are learning to look at problems from various perspectives and can seamlessly apply this to your question. They're focused on staying alert, which allows them to see when day-to-day business could be improved or is not entirely logical.

Studenten master Molecular Life Sciences Lisan Scholten en Nouhaila Belkassem tijdens een praktijkles op het lab

Innovativeness

Students are highly innovative. They are taught to think up solutions and concepts that are innovative, challenging and creative, and they can do this better than anyone. They can give free rein to their creativity during school assignments and later develop these ideas into realistic and concrete forms.

Focus on performance

Students are at the start of their professional careers. So, they want to make a name for themselves to ensure the best possible start in the work field. Also, students are constantly being judged on their work. So they often know whether it's up to scratch, and they like to improve where they can.

Twee studenten bekijken een vloeistof in een buisje.

HAN BioCentre is one of the seven Centres of Expertise at HAN University of Applied Sciences.

The CoE focuses on Applied Biosciences and Chemistry with main themes Biobased Research, Bioinformatics | Data Science, and Drug Discovery. We are happy to share our knowledge and facilities with companies, professionals, teachers, and students.

Our expertise includes, for example, the production of biobased raw materials based on fermentation, the development of separation methods for the full utilization of waste streams from agriculture and horticulture, and the development of new medicines by modifying substances extracted from plants. In addition, we are working on alternative testing methods to replace animal testing and on designing methods and software to utilize the enormous amount of available (genetic) data for our tasks.

More information:
Carlien Verberne, manager HAN BioCentre
Email info@hanbiocentre.nl
- HAN BioCentre
Optimising fermentation processes, producing proteins, enzymes, biomolecules or metabolites, and developing new processes and products. Through research into these themes, the Biobased Innovations lectureship contributes to the development of knowledge and expertise that companies need for development and innovation.

Christof Francke has been an official lecturer since July.

Associate lecturer Richèle Wind (Biobased Economy)
- Lectureship Biobased Innovations
The Drug Discovery lectureship operates together with the lectureship Biobased Innovations under the banner of the HAN BioCentre. The research group has two program lines: ‘working on recovery’ and ‘living with a chronic illness’. Drug Discovery mainly leads to new innovations in Health and Agro & Food.

Dennis Löwik has been the lecturer since June.
- Lectureship Drug Discovery

We have signed contracts with a number of companies. The aim of these contracts is to collaborate extensively in the education and research activities of our academy.

These preferred partners are:

The next edition of the company fair is scheduled for Wednesday, January 28, 2026. Between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m., all our students will have the opportunity to meet companies and institutions from the fields of chemistry, biology, life sciences, and bioinformatics. For companies, this is a chance to recruit students for an internship, graduation project, or perhaps even a job.

Information can be provided in the form of a workshop, presentations, market stall, or something else; the company itself decides. The frequency and language used are also up to the company.

Go to the company fair webpage (from September 2025)

Register for companies (from September 2025)

Whether you're a new or experienced entrepreneur, you can make use of our high-end laboratory equipment and professional guidance from lecturers and researchers. This equipment and expertise are available to you at a reasonable price.

We also design, implement and test analysis pipelines, such as processing experimental data that is analyzed by various tools through a pipeline.

More information:
Peter.vink@han.nl
- Ga naar HAN BioCentre
Do you work in a laboratory and want to further your professional development? Do you want to continue to grow and get more out of your work? Or would you like to continue your studies? Expand your career with the postgraduate degrees, higher professional degree programs, courses and training programs offered by the School of Applied Biosciences and Chemistry. Customized course offerings are also available.

More info:
Email info.lifesciences@han.nl
Are you looking for a customized course or (in-company) training for your staff? Ask about the possibilities.

More information:
Email info.lifesciences@han.nl

The School of Applied Biosciences and Chemistry has a hybrid work-based learning environment targeting drug discovery at Pivot Park in Oss. This will draw in the work field and allow for better collaboration in the triangle of research - education - work field.

More information:
Dennis Löwik, lecturer Drug Discovery
E-mail dennis.lowik@han.nl
A hybrid work-based learning environment targeting biobased economy is set up at Connectr at Cleantech Park in Arnhem.

More information:
Richele Wind, Associate Professor in Biobased Economy
Email: richele.wind@han.nl