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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...
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Eleven Leiden scientists receive funding for science communication22 April 2021
The KNAW has rewarded 11 Leiden scientists for their commitment to science communication, by awarding them 10,000 euros each from the ‘Appreciated!’ f...
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Leiden University signs health and wellbeing agreement for city of Leiden20 April 2021Healthy and active Leideners and a smoke-free generation. These are the main ambitions of the Leiden Health and Wellbeing Agreement that was signed on...
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LUMC will administer first Dutch stem cell gene therapy to patients19 April 2021Researchers and clinicians at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) are about to begin a milestone clinical study. It will be the first time a stem ...
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‘A donor organ is a precious gift that we should treat with care’19 April 2021Professor André Baranski is a champion for improving organ procurement. He believes there should be standardised training and certification for procur...
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Combating loneliness in Living Lab13 April 2021Master's students of Vitality & Ageing work together with older individuals in the so-called ‘Living Lab’ to combat loneliness. You can watch four bri...
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‘Skin injection could allow us to vaccinate up to five times more people from the same supplies’12 April 2021The current COVID-19 vaccination campaign involves injecting the vaccine into muscle tissue, but injecting a smaller amount of vaccine in the skin mi...
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Government pledges millions for economic growth09 April 2021The government is investing 646 million euros and has set aside a further 3.5 billion to drive economic growth in the Netherlands. Much of the Nationa...