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‘A revolution is coming in treatments for neurodegenerative diseases’ 11 March 2022
Professor by Special Appointment of Clinical Neuropharmacology Geert Jan Groeneveld will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled ‘The importance of the...
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Lena and Sophie have been selected as Europaeum Fellow: ‘Excited to learn from others’ 08 March 2022
Four PhD researchers of Leiden University have been selected to participate in the Europaeum Scholars Program 2022-2023. Two of them, Lena Riecke and ...
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Children all ears at hearing event 07 March 2022
Thursday was World Hearing Day. During one of the Leiden2022 activities, visitors to Corpus Museum could learn all about ears and test whether theirs ...
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‘Genetic variants could help determine whether breast cancer is hereditary’ 04 March 2022
We already know a lot about genetics and the risk of breast cancer. But much still needs to be done in breast cancer genetics to improve the prognosis...
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Book: The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East 02 March 2022
Five questions for James Shires, assistant professor at ISGA, about his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East. The book is availa...
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‘We should have anticipated the invasion of Ukraine’ 25 February 2022
The West has missed several opportunities to prevent the invasion of Ukraine or, at the very least, to better support the Ukraine, claims Frans Osinga...
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Unravelling the complexity of HIV/AIDS 23 February 2022
Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AID...
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From master’s thesis to scientific article: ‘Really strange that people are able to quote me now’ 23 February 2022
Vivian van der Linde completed her masters Crisis & Security Management in the summer of 2020 by writing a thesis on Dieselgate. Freshly graduated, s...
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Is a cancer pill a matter of time? 21 February 2022
A cancer pill, preferably without severe side effects, is something we’d all welcome. Is it a matter of time before such a pill is a reality? We put t...
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Grand opening of POPcorner The Hague 17 February 2022
With an opening speech, a panel discussion on the Spanish Steps in Wijnhaven and a push on the red button outside the building itself, POPcorner The H...
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations? 16 February 2022
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor i...
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MasterMinds Challenge named best educational innovation 16 February 2022
The Master of Medicine at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has won the national biennial award for best educational innovation in medical teach...
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education 15 February 2022
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti wer...
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Taking a Different Look at Public Leadership 14 February 2022
'How can public leadership contribute sustainably to solving societal problems?'
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Guest lecture on Deterrence in the era of Great Power Competition 11 February 2022
During the guest lecture on 9 February, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Rob de Wijk and Frans Osinga discussed the situation in Ukraine and Taiwan. The crises ...