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Why COVID-19 caused a pandemic (whereas other coronaviruses did not)24 January 2023Epithelial cells play a crucial role in the lungs. PhD student Ying Wang researched the effects of cigarette smoke and viruses such as COVID-19 on the...
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Medical Delta professor: ‘You can talk about collaboration until the cows come home but at some point, you actually have to start doing it’19 January 2023Patients and healthcare providers use Remote Patient Management platforms to exchange information with each other. New methods like this are desperate...
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People with an eating disorder benefit from eHealth17 January 2023Eating disorders develop gradually and it often takes a long time for people with an eating disorder to seek help and receive treatment. This ‘treatme...
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Specialised immune cells have potential for new cancer immunotherapies12 January 2023Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) have discovered how specialised immune cells can detec...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council10 January 2023The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Medical Delta Professor Eline Slagboom: ‘The delta region is where everything comes together’10 January 2023Professor Eline Slagboom has been studying multiple generations of families for over 20 years. She collects data on why some people age healthily and ...
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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros09 January 2023Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial int...
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What do surgeons have in common? Their personality unravelled23 December 2022Open, extravert, agreeable, stress-tolerant and conscientious. These are the character traits of surgeons according to research by Vincent Sier and Jo...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?Reportage 20 December 2022The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...
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AI application in pathology reveals novel insights in endometrial cancer diagnostics15 December 2022Research at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) Department of Pathology shows the power of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to endometrial...
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Deployment still affects veterans ten years later14 December 2022Ten years later, a group of veterans still struggle daily with the effects of their deployment to Afghanistan. Sanne van der Wal, a PhD candidate at t...
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Old tradition of ‘golden PhDs’ reinstated06 December 2022Black-and-white photographs filled with solemn young men and distinguished professors line the walls of the Grand Auditorium. Young women are missing ...
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‘If you want to resolve the big challenges in healthcare, you have to work across disciplines’29 November 2022Marieke Adriaanse is Professor of Behavioural Interventions in Population Health and researches behavioural science issues in health. She advocates fo...
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Study of a Russian doctor and innovator in troubled times24 November 2022Ambroise Paré, Thomas Sydenham and Herman Boerhaave: all were great medical innovators in their time. We know far less about the 19th-century Russian ...
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Medical Delta professor Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei: 'We work together for the patient'22 November 2022
Professor of Radiology Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei was already a professor at LUMC and the University of Twente. As Medical Delta professor, she has now also...