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TEMPORAL project helps improving hearing of the deaf22 April 2021Electrical inner ear prostheses like Cochlear Implants (CIs) help deaf and severely hearing-impaired persons to regain many of their communication abi...
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Government pledges millions for economic growth09 April 2021The government is investing 646 million euros and has set aside a further 3.5 billion to drive economic growth in the Netherlands. Much of the Nationa...
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615 million euros for quantum research09 April 2021Quantum Delta NL, a research programme in which Leiden University participates, has been awarded 615 million euros from the National Growth Fund to he...
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A lifestyle app or a children’s book? Summer school for scientists01 April 2021It’s about much more than learning how to write a readable piece or give a presentation that doesn’t send the audience to sleep. The intensive Science...
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Tatiana Afanassjewa public lectures about physics01 April 2021After a succesful first lecture, the Leiden physics institute LION is launching an online series of (Dutch language) lectures about physics, intended ...
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Free online course teaches you all about imaging30 March 2021How do you microscopically image zebrafish larvae? The new free online course ‘Imaging the Vertebrate embryo’ teaches you all about it. Leiden PhD can...
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New technology could prevent the mass cull of male chicks29 March 2021A staggering 6.5 billion chicks are killed worldwide every year. These are generally male chicks that are of no economic value. In Ovo has developed t...
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Chemistry research for better chemotherapy Finalist PNAS paper award19 March 2021Last year, chemists Dennis Wander and Hermen Overkleeft contributed to an important discovery about a widely used cancer drug. Their research has now ...
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Closing the skills gap for young researchers through innovation and entrepreneurship training12 March 2021The EU-funded project SKIES (SKilled, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Scientists) will train astronomy graduate students in transferable skills for aca...
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines18 February 2021The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help e...
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences16 February 2021The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists...
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Noise pollution affects marine life worldwide05 February 2021Man-made sounds in and around the oceans stress marine life and have an impact on marine species and ecosystems by changing the underwater acoustic cl...
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New map of the Netherlands shows where nitrogen reduction will be most effective05 February 2021By reforming agriculture in targeted areas, we can protect the Natura 2000 areas much more effectively. This is what Jan Willem Erisman of Leiden Univ...
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Sculptures provide more diverse view of University’s history04 February 2021Three new initiatives will provide a more diverse view of Leiden’s academic history, literally and figuratively: a historical study on the background ...
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi04 February 2021Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the alg...