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‘A revolution is coming in treatments for neurodegenerative diseases’11 March 2022Professor by Special Appointment of Clinical Neuropharmacology Geert Jan Groeneveld will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled ‘The importance of the...
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Children all ears at hearing event07 March 2022Thursday was World Hearing Day. During one of the Leiden2022 activities, visitors to Corpus Museum could learn all about ears and test whether theirs ...
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‘Genetic variants could help determine whether breast cancer is hereditary’04 March 2022We already know a lot about genetics and the risk of breast cancer. But much still needs to be done in breast cancer genetics to improve the prognosis...
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Is a cancer pill a matter of time?21 February 2022A cancer pill, preferably without severe side effects, is something we’d all welcome. Is it a matter of time before such a pill is a reality? We put t...
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?16 February 2022Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor i...
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MasterMinds Challenge named best educational innovation16 February 2022The Master of Medicine at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has won the national biennial award for best educational innovation in medical teach...
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Jan Kolen new Artificial Intelligence Coordinator at Leiden University03 February 2022The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Jan Kolen as the University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coordinator as of 1 February 2022. I...
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Patient-centred research: less about the tumour, more about the patient28 January 2022Amir Zamanipoor Najafabadi, a doctor and researcher at the LUMC’s Department of Neurosurgery, researches how meningioma treatment can have a long-term...
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Medical Delta professor Marco van Vulpen: ‘I advocate the introduction of the share factor’28 January 2022Proton therapy is a new way of treating cancer in which radiation doses are delivered more precisely. This results in less damage to surrounding tissu...
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mRNA boosters are the most effective upon receiving Janssen vaccination21 January 2022A coronavirus booster shot provides a better immune response against COVID-19 than a single vaccine dose. mRNA boosters are the most effective upon re...
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Leiden researchers visualise the 'guardian of our genome’18 January 2022The guardian of our genome, the protein MutS, scans the DNA for spelling errors and makes sure they are corrected. An essential process for our health...
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Inexhaustible source of human heart muscle cells allows strong reduction of animal testing07 January 2022Researchers at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) have managed to culture human heart muscle cells on a massive scale. This is an exceptional...
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Medical Delta professor Andrew Webb: ‘In The Netherlands, people are much more open to cooperation’21 December 2021
Commercial MRI systems cost millions of euros to purchase and require highly trained technicians to operate. Prof. Andrew Webb works on accessible MRI...
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Positive Health: what is it and how do you measure it?17 December 2021Health policy in the Netherlands is increasingly based on Positive Health. This approach sees health as much more than simply not being ill. There are...
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Book about 200 years of medicine in Leiden17 December 2021The book ‘Geleerde Zorgen: twee eeuwen academische geneeskunde in Leiden’ (‘Learned Care: two centuries of academic medicine in Leiden’) was presented...