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What rights do donors have?30 September 2022Collaboration is worthwhile. A joint LUMC and Leiden Law School project has received €142,500 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will a...
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Health Campus The Hague: working together for better health and care30 September 2022Better health for all the residents of The Hague region. This is the mission of Health Campus The Hague – formerly LUMC Campus The Hague. Eight partne...
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Important developments in lung cancer surgery23 September 2022Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, in particular pulmonary surgery, Jerry Braun will give his inaugural lecture on Friday 23 September entitled ‘Out...
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How do we maintain a healthy biological clock?22 September 2022During Seeing Stars Leiden all the lights around Leiden Observatory will be switched off for an hour. The more lights that go out, the more stars we’l...
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The surgeon who wants to make her operations unnecessary15 September 2022Lotje Zuur sometimes has to perform disfiguring operations. As a head and neck surgeon, she removes parts of the mouth, throat or face of people with ...
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Inaugural lecture: 'Connecting disciplines advances science and care’08 September 2022On Friday 9 September, Jeanin van Hooft, Professor of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, will deliver her inaugural lecture titled: 'The scope of co...
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Draw on behavioural science for a healthy lifestyle31 August 2022Healthy lifestyle campaigns are often unsuccessful. It is hard to get people to eat healthily or do more exercise. Behavioural science expertise shoul...
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Video lecture: What is cancer?26 August 2022Cancer is still one of the most common diseases in the world. What exactly is cancer and will we one day be able to cure everyone? In a video from the...
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Researchers discover how malaria parasite survives in mosquitoes23 August 2022Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have discovered how malaria parasites escape the immune system of mosquitoes. The so-called Q...
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Students from all around the world discover The Hague22 August 2022A day at the beach, games, a visit to an embassy and a pub crawl. The activities at HOPweek help new students get to know not just The Hague but each ...
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T-cells more important in the fight against the COVID-19 virus than initially thought01 August 2022A COVID-19 vaccine that specifically instructs the immune system to produce T-cells rather than antibodies is shown to provide good protection in a mo...
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Growth differences during twin pregnancy have effect later in life29 July 2022A child who receives fewer nutrients in the womb than their identical twin brother or sister is more likely to have developmental problems later in li...
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Treatment before patients develop rheumatism provides lasting relief22 July 2022Early treatment benefits patients who have not fully developed rheumatoid arthritis but are in the preliminary stages of the disease. This is what res...
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers11 July 2022Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura...
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Joining forces for a Healthy and Happy The Hague05 July 2022Numerous of enthusiastic administrators, professionals, policy makers, and citizens gathered last week for an assembly organised by ‘Gezond en Gelukki...