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Combating loneliness in Living Lab 13 April 2021
Master's students of Vitality & Ageing work together with older individuals in the so-called ‘Living Lab’ to combat loneliness. You can watch four bri...
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‘Skin injection could allow us to vaccinate up to five times more people from the same supplies’ 12 April 2021
The current COVID-19 vaccination campaign involves injecting the vaccine into muscle tissue, but injecting a smaller amount of vaccine in the skin mi...
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Government pledges millions for economic growth 09 April 2021
The 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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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections 18 March 2021
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviou...
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Professor Aartsma-Rus receives Ammodo Science Award 11 March 2021
Professor Annemieke Aartsma-Rus from Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) has received the Ammodo Science Award for her research into the muscular ...
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LUMC uses artificial intelligence to calculate lung damage in coronavirus patients 08 March 2021
With the aid of artificial intelligence (AI), care professionals at the LUMC (Leiden University Medical Center) are able to calculate quickly and accu...
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New master’s in Population Health Management 26 February 2021
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Leiden University will start a new two-year English-taught master’s programme in Population Health Managem...
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner 22 February 2021
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too...
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences 16 February 2021
The 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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‘We cannot abandon coronavirus measures until vaccines are shown to prevent virus transmission too’ 01 February 2021
All acute care staff at Leiden University Medical Center have received their first and sometimes even their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Bu...
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University flag travels to Mount Everest and back again 25 January 2021
Leiden PhD candidate Mona Shahab climbed Mount Everest two years ago to raise money for the education of disadvantaged children in Egypt. She made it ...
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Breast cancer risk more accurate after genetic test 25 January 2021
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has spent the past five years coordinating an international study of genetic mutations and breast cancer risks...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and reward 18 January 2021
A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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Leiden and African students share knowledge and experiences in online Global Health course 11 January 2021
Online teaching has made it much easier for international students to join in our courses. The Leiden minor in Global Health, for instance. Students f...
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Half minor Global Health a great success! 16 December 2020
The pandemic has challenged us to revisit the way we structure education and how to reach out to students remotely. It almost seems fitting that a cou...