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President Annetje Ottow helps fish plastic out of the canal12 July 2021Every Sunday you can help fish plastic and other floating garbage out of the Leiden canals. You can use your own canoe or loan one from Plastic Spotte...
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Covid influences sustainability at Leiden University too in 202005 July 2021The coronavirus pandemic has had us working and studying at home, and this has had a positive effect on Leiden University’s sustainability results. Th...
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Ten lecturers receive Senior Teaching Qualification28 June 2021On 28 June, ten dedicated lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Hester Bijl congratulated them in an online meeting. We...
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Support the Rapidemic team and help them develop a mobile testing kit28 June 2021A team of students from Leiden won the iGEM international biology contest in 2020 with their Rapidemic mobile testing kit. The kit makes it easy to de...
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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant21 June 2021Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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‘Mysterious Meniere’s disease is the poor relation in medicine’18 June 2021Meniere’s disease, a disorder of the inner ear, was first described back in 1861, but there’s still no good test or treatment for it. Tjasse Bruintjes...
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Nerve stimulation effective in patients with untreatable cluster headaches17 June 2021Extremely painful chronic cluster headaches – sometimes referred to as ‘suicide headaches’ – can be prevented by stimulating the occipital nerve in th...
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Five times more Covid vaccines from a vial with skin injection17 June 2021Not ten but fifty Covid vaccines from one vial. This is possible if the vaccination is delivered into the skin rather than the muscle, research by int...
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Psychology lab embraces open science14 June 2021‘If you want to implement open science, you at least need someone at each faculty who can help researchers to solve practical problems.’ Dorien Huijse...
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Academic Pharma submits application to National Growth Fund08 June 2021Knowledge institutions in the Netherlands are to work together with the pharma and biotech industries to accelerate drug discovery and development. To...
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Fiffy the chimpanzee can see again thanks to unique operation at the LUMC31 May 2021Fiffy the chimpanzee had rapidly developed cataracts in both eyes that made her as good as blind. Eye doctors at the Leiden University Medical Center ...
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Animation: Why Leiden is the birthplace of the Janssen vaccine25 May 2021If you'll soon be getting a COVID-19 vaccine, you might just get the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) one. This vaccine was developed for the most part in ...
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Peter Paul van Benthem and the Covid whirlwind18 May 2021Peter Paul van Benthem is not only head of the ENT department at the LUMC but also chair of the Federation of Medical Specialists. ‘The value is in th...
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‘How can we translate the language of cells into cancer therapies?’23 April 2021On 23 April 2021, Professor Alfred Vertegaal from the Department of Cell and Chemical Biology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) delivered...
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ERC Advanced Grant for six Leiden researchers22 April 2021The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to six Leiden researchers. It awards these significant grants to established princip...