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Help track coronavirus with the LUMC’s COVID Radar app 07 April 2020
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has just launched its COVID Radar app. Users of the app are asked to regularly complete a short questionnaire ...
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NKI-AVL and LUMC are joining forces in immunotherapy 26 March 2020
Strengthening a cancer patient's own immune system so that the body itself can better destroy cancer cells. This is at the heart of immunotherapy, the...
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Support the LUMC’s corona research 23 March 2020
Scientists at the LUMC are working hard on potential virus inhibitors, antiviral screening and a treatment for COVID-19. SteunLeiden.nl has started a ...
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Therapeutic vaccine boosts survival rate in cervical cancer patients 19 March 2020
A therapeutic vaccine against HPV-16 (type 16 human papillomavirus) improves the survival rate in cervical cancer patients. A new study by ISA Pharmac...
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‘You want to train doctors who will keep asking critical questions’ 09 March 2020
Determined, innovative lecturers are the driving force behind our teaching. Alexandra Langers, a specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology at the ...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists 24 February 2020
Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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‘Coeliac disease diagnosis is often overlooked or delayed’ 21 February 2020
Although coeliac disease, an autoimmune disorder that makes you gluten intolerant, occurs in 1% of the population, its diagnosis is often delayed or c...
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“You cannot predict the future, but you can think about it!” Master’s Vitality and Ageing visits Vilans! 20 February 2020
As part of the career orientation of the Master’s Vitality and Ageing, students visit various healthcare, policy and research organisations throughout...
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Four Leiden professors appointed to KHMW 20 February 2020
Four Leiden University professors have been appointed to The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Andrea Evers, Erwin Muller, Sjaak Neefj...
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When will there be a coronavirus vaccine? 18 February 2020
The genetic code of the new coronavirus has been found: it is closely related to the SARS virus from 2003. Professor of Molecular Virology, Eric Snijd...
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‘You learn so much more than during your studies’ 14 February 2020
Graduates Bruno and Plym took part in the National Think Tank last year. Together with 20 other students and recent graduates, they spent four months ...
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A real professor in the classroom 07 February 2020
A school lesson by a professor, for instance about the history of Africa, the climate or research and healthcare. A hundred Leiden professors told pri...
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Awards for three Leiden Partnership projects with industry sector 28 January 2020
NWO is funding three partnership projects with the industry sector. The projects relate to speeding up the search for new medicines, studying the chan...
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Dynamic personalised sarcoma care: implementation of a mathematical prediction app in the clinic 22 January 2020
A new app provides dynamic predictions of survival for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. It was developed by the mathematical Institute res...
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Two Proof of Concept grants for Leiden 15 January 2020
Professor of Developmental Biology Christine Mummery and chemist Dr Dennis Hetterscheid have each been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant. These gr...