The 4^th European MD/PhD conference 2015 took place at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) from June 5th till June 7th 2015. With keynote speakers Prof. Martin Chalfie, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his revolutionising discovery of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and Prof. Howard Bauchner, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the conference was a huge succes.