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Medical Delta professor Marcel Reinders: ‘You need collaboration to make a real impact’25 November 2021Prof. Marcel Reinders is a data science specialist at Delft University of technology. Using smart algorithms, he searches for links in complex data. F...
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‘Integrated palliative care matters to everyone’12 November 2021On Friday 12 November Professor of Palliative Medicine Yvette van der Linden will give her inaugural lecture entitled: ‘Timeless’. How do we spend our...
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Adam Cohen receives Dr. Saal van Zwanenberg Honorary Prize12 November 2021Professor of Clinical Pharmacology Adam Cohen from Leiden University received the prestigious Dr. Saal van Zwanenberg Honorary Prize on 12 November. T...
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Healthy ageing? Shift the focus from the individual to the population11 November 2021David van Bodegom, Professor of Vitality in an Ageing Population, will give his inaugural lecture on 11 November, also titled Vitality in an Ageing Po...
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Medical Delta professor Jaap Harlaar: ‘This form of collaboration is in my blood’11 November 2021
Hundreds of thousands of Dutch people suffer from pain caused by knee osteoarthritis and the number is rising fast. Prof. Jaap Harlaar specialises in ...
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Michiel van de Sande delivers inaugural lecture on advancing sarcoma care05 November 2021On 5 November 2021, Professor Michiel van de Sande of the Department of Orthopedics in the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) delivered his inaug...
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Young transgender people are able to decide about puberty blockers05 November 2021Young transgender people are able to decide together with their parents on a reversible intervention with puberty blockers. These are the results of a...
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Five Leiden professors installed as Medical Delta professors03 November 2021
On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology...
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LUMC, Leiden University and Philips intensify collaboration for faster MRI with the aid of artificial intelligence08 October 2021Together, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are one of the 17 AI labs within the ROBUST consortium that will rece...
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Rubicon grant for four Leiden researchers04 October 2021Four promising young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will enable th...
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A ‘lock’ to make genetic modification safer23 September 2021Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be useful allies in the fight against critical environmental problems. Could because the use of GMOs is st...
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A summer abroad, but then virtually13 September 2021For many students, a summer school abroad is a fun and useful way to spend the summer. This year, because of the travel restrictions, many summer scho...
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Vaccination policy should respond to the motivations of vaccine refusers13 September 2021Research by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Erasmus University Rotterdam shows that about 15 per...
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Thorbald van Hall delivers inaugural lecture on training the immune system to counterattack escaping tumours10 September 2021On 10 September 2021, Professor Thorbald van Hall from the Department of Medical Oncology in the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) delivered his...
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LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize03 September 2021Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many...