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Two young researchers win Krijn Rietveld Award for innovative research on blood donation and colorectal cancerKrijn Rietveld Award 03 September 2025One used 3D cell models to study colorectal cancer, while the other used machine learning for more efficient blood donation. For these achievements, M...
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant02 September 2025Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers t...
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Thirteen NWO Open Competition XS grants for Leiden researchersResearch funding 12 August 2025From medicines from snake venom to supercrops and the origin of words. Thirteen researchers from Leiden University will receive Open Competition XS gr...
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Three innovative research projects awarded Open Competition Science-M fundingNWO 31 July 2025
Tracking mucus-eating bacteria, mapping the complexity of planetary nebulae and a signalling pathway in cancer. These three Leiden projects have been ...
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Astronomers and surgeons join forces in the operating theatreQuantum and space 22 July 2025Astronomers and surgeons from Leiden are collaborating with industry to develop an optical instrument that delivers faster, more accurate imaging of t...
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Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers17 July 2025Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young resea...
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Leiden scientists join national effort to advance nanomedicine10 July 2025A Dutch consortium has received €6.7 million to accelerate the development of nanomedicines together with patients. Researchers from Leiden University...
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Four Leiden researchers receive ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025From social inequalities in prehistory to placebo effects in medical treatments. Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a prestigio...
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Leiden researchers receive funding for high-tech research09 May 2025
An innovative method for testing food quality and the magnetic labelling of blood: two Leiden University research consortia have received funding from...
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NWO Open Competition grants for two research projectsResearch grants 17 February 2025Two research projects from Leiden University have been awarded funding within the NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition Domain Science program...
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Meta Roestenberg awarded Mercator Sapiens Stimulus for pioneering malaria research06 February 2025Professor Meta Roestenberg has been awarded the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus 2025 by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). The pri...
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From research to practice: Leiden researchers awarded European grantImpact 03 February 2025
Various Leiden researchers have been awarded a European grant to explore the commercial or societal potential of previous research.
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Grants for fundamental research in LeidenNWO Open Competition 18 December 2024Three fundamental research projects at Leiden in physics, chemistry and medical science have received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). T...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants22 October 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants03 September 2024Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own proje...