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2019 Hall of fame 07 January 2020
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Tracers that light up tumours help surgeons 07 January 2020
How do surgeons avoid causing nerve damage or leaving cancerous cells behind? An interdisciplinary research group at the LUMC hopes to improve operati...
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Watch our Vitality and Ageing Webinar On demand 17 December 2019
Want to find out more about our master’s programme? Or are you wondering what questions are asked during the Q&A about the content or careers of Vital...
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Relatively large number of female professors at Leiden University 12 December 2019
Leiden has the second-highest percentage of female professors of all the Dutch universities. These are the results of the annual Women Professors Moni...
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students 09 December 2019
Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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Leiden team wins challenge for faster MRI scan through artificial intelligence 05 December 2019
Researchers from Leiden, in cooperation with Philips, have won a challenge in which international research groups dedicate themselves to accelerating ...
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Snouck Hurgronje Prize goes to Leiden Resuscitation Day 05 December 2019
Quick resuscitation can save lives, but under 1% of the population of Leiden is a community first responder. Student associations and various partners...
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Better understanding of disease thanks to organs-on-chips 02 December 2019
For medical research, researchers often recreate tissue in the lab. Organ-on-a-chip technology emulates organs, right down to the blood that flows thr...
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‘Juvenile idiopathic arthritis deserves more attention’ 25 November 2019
More attention should be paid to juvenile idiopathic arthritis. An early diagnosis and robust treatment can prevent irreversible damage. This is what ...
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The promises and the dark side of stem cells 21 November 2019
Geneticist Hans Clevers will give the first Niko Tinbergen lecture new style on 10 December, which is all about stem cells. The young Leiden professor...
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17 Leiden researchers on highly cited list 20 November 2019
Seventeen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 19 November by Clarivate Analytics.
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‘The immune system is a double-edged sword’ 15 November 2019
With cancer, the immune system is a double-edged sword: it can attack tumour cells, but can also help them grow and spread. It is a question of harnes...
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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong 15 November 2019
Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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Honorary doctorate for LUMC Dean Pancras Hogendoorn 07 November 2019
Pancras Hogendoorn, Professor of Pathology and Dean of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), received an honorary doctorate from Semmelweis Uni...
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First Vitality and Ageing master thesis published as scientific article 30 October 2019
Master Vitality and Ageing’s (V&A) alumnus Willeke Ravensbergen conducted for her master’s thesis research on the impact of combinations of future tre...