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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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Medical milestone at LUMC: first Dutch patient receives CAR T-cell therapy for autoimmune disease03 June 2025The LUMC has become the first institution in the Netherlands to treat a patient with an autoimmune disease using CAR T-cell therapy. This marks a sign...
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Delegation from Nagasaki University visits Leiden UniversityCollaboration 27 May 2025A delegation from Nagasaki University visited Leiden University at the end of May. Ikematsu Kazuya, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Nagasaki Univer...
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Leiden researchers receive funding for high-tech research09 May 2025An 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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AI model predicts risk of infection in postoperative patientsPhD defence 08 May 2025A new AI model will soon be able to predict the risk of infection in postoperative patients. This will allow healthcare providers to take preventive m...
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Live: protest in Wijnhaven building Leiden University06 May 2025Around 1:00 p.m., a group of more than one hundred pro-Palestinian protesters gathered at the The Hague campus. Participants chanted slogans and put u...
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More research on side-effects: ‘Side effects are not a side issue’Inaugural lecture 25 April 2025We need to be quicker and better at discovering side effects. In her inaugural lecture, Agnes Kant, Professor by Special Appointment of Innovation of ...
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Health Campus explores effect of neighbourhood approach for healthy Hague generation16 April 2025A generation is growing up in The Hague Southwest with little room for manoeuvre. Researchers from Health Campus The Hague are following what the BRUI...
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Six Medical Delta professors for LeidenSustainable healthcare 09 April 2025Six professors or associate professors from Leiden University have officially been appointed 'Medical Delta Professor'. Their inauguration took place ...
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AI internship for students on reducing administrative burden in healthcare11 March 2025Health and well-being staff spend at least 25 per cent of their working hours on admin.* Time that could be used for care. Much of this work could be ...
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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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A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’Meet the professor 07 February 2025Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights a...
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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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Jan Anthonie Bruijn: The world cannot survive without interdisciplinary knowledgeAfscheidscollege 03 February 2025‘Wonder is the beginning of insight. Don’t let that academic curiosity erode.’ This was Jan Anthonie Bruijn’s call to administrators and funding bodie...
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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.