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ERC Starting Grant for Roxanne Kieltyka: stem cells in gelsChemist Roxanne Kieltyka has received an ERC Starting Grant of 2 million euros. In her lab, she creates gels that mimic the instructive material that ...
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NWO awards curiosity-driven research Ariane Briegel with grantProfessor of Ultrastructural Biology Ariane Briegel has received a grant in the NWO Open Competition Domain Science in the XS category. This grant emp...
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How a global carbon price would weaken Eastern European and Asian economiesAlthough seen as the fastest and cheapest way to global climate protection, a uniform global carbon price would have major consequences for the econom...
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Quartermaster to explore possible Leiden Law ParkOver the coming year, a quartermaster will explore the possibility of a Leiden Law Park in the centre of Leiden. In a building close to Leiden Law Sch...
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Inspiring BADGES event in BelgiumOur event on the fourth and fifth of September 2019 at the Alden Biesen castle was a succes! We captivated the attendees with informal learning in the...
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Women and non-Western characters underrepresented in secondary school textbooksTextbooks in the Netherlands contain significantly fewer female than male characters and relatively few characters from a non-Western background. They...
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Guest Lecture Ambassador Ron KellerOn Friday 8 November 2019, Ron Keller, former ambassador of the Netherlands to China, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia gave a guest lecture at the Institute...
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Leiden iGEM students win prize with squid proteinThe Leiden students who participated in the iGEM synthetic biology competition have won the prize for best production. They developed a way to have ba...
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From rebellious puppet show to art collectionFor all the artworks that Riccardo Giacconi creates, he begins by conducting extensive research. He discovered three stories about rebellious characte...
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Pharmacologist Elizabeth de Lange receives Honorary Doctorate in Pharmacy from Uppsala UniversityProfessor of Predictive Pharmacology Elizabeth de Lange has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Pharmacy of Uppsala University. She wil...
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Content key factor in choosing a master’s programmeLast Friday was Master’s Open Day time once again. Students from home and abroad descended on Leiden and The Hague to find out more about our master’s...
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Celebrating 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the (Y)our Rights FestivalIt is 30 years ago this month that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified. UNICEF is celebrating this on 20 November in collaborati...
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‘Don’t assume that someone else will step in’Her book ‘Veel valse hoop’ (Much False Hope) about the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands was immediately hailed as a seminal work. German his...
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The chemistry behind cancer drugs: searching for fewer side effectsPhD candidate Dennis Wander searches for the best of both worlds. That is to say: a cancer drug that is effective and also has minimal side effects. T...
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Transition to electric vehicles puts heavy pressure on production of critical metalsThe current production of a number of critical metals is insufficient for the large-scale transition to electric vehicles. This is the conclusion of a...