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President Annetje Ottow helps fish plastic out of the canal 12 July 2021
Every Sunday you can help fish plastic and other floating garbage out of the Leiden canals. You can use your own canoe or loan one from Plastic Spotte...
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Covid influences sustainability at Leiden University too in 2020 05 July 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has had us working and studying at home, and this has had a positive effect on Leiden University’s sustainability results. Th...
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Ten lecturers receive Senior Teaching Qualification 28 June 2021
On 28 June, ten dedicated lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Hester Bijl congratulated them in an online meeting. We...
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Support the Rapidemic team and help them develop a mobile testing kit 28 June 2021
A team of students from Leiden won the iGEM international biology contest in 2020 with their Rapidemic mobile testing kit. The kit makes it easy to de...
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‘Mysterious Meniere’s disease is the poor relation in medicine’ 18 June 2021
Meniere’s disease, a disorder of the inner ear, was first described back in 1861, but there’s still no good test or treatment for it. Tjasse Bruintjes...
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Nerve stimulation effective in patients with untreatable cluster headaches 17 June 2021
Extremely painful chronic cluster headaches – sometimes referred to as ‘suicide headaches’ – can be prevented by stimulating the occipital nerve in th...
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Five times more Covid vaccines from a vial with skin injection 17 June 2021
Not ten but fifty Covid vaccines from one vial. This is possible if the vaccination is delivered into the skin rather than the muscle, research by int...
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Psychology lab embraces open science 14 June 2021
‘If you want to implement open science, you at least need someone at each faculty who can help researchers to solve practical problems.’ Dorien Huijse...
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Fiffy the chimpanzee can see again thanks to unique operation at the LUMC 31 May 2021
Fiffy the chimpanzee had rapidly developed cataracts in both eyes that made her as good as blind. Eye doctors at the Leiden University Medical Center ...
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Animation: Why Leiden is the birthplace of the Janssen vaccine 25 May 2021
If you'll soon be getting a COVID-19 vaccine, you might just get the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) one. This vaccine was developed for the most part in ...
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‘How can we translate the language of cells into cancer therapies?’ 23 April 2021
On 23 April 2021, Professor Alfred Vertegaal from the Department of Cell and Chemical Biology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) delivered...
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ERC Advanced Grant for six Leiden researchers 22 April 2021
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to six Leiden researchers. It awards these significant grants to established princip...
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Eleven Leiden scientists receive funding for science communication 22 April 2021
The KNAW has rewarded 11 Leiden scientists for their commitment to science communication, by awarding them 10,000 euros each from the ‘Appreciated!’ f...
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Leiden University signs health and wellbeing agreement for city of Leiden 20 April 2021
Healthy and active Leideners and a smoke-free generation. These are the main ambitions of the Leiden Health and Wellbeing Agreement that was signed on...
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LUMC will administer first Dutch stem cell gene therapy to patients 19 April 2021
Researchers and clinicians at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) are about to begin a milestone clinical study. It will be the first time a stem ...