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Phenomix Field Lab offers promising healthcare solutions13 July 2020In the Phenomix Medical Delta Field Lab, which was officially opened on Thursday 9 July, scientists, healthcare institutions and businesses work toget...
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Leiden-Delft-Erasmus collaboration brings self-learning healthcare system a step closer10 July 2020More effective diagnosis and prognosis than ever, with less intrusive medical screening? Scientists from Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam are well on the w...
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New professor fosters multidisciplinary approach to arthrosis29 June 2020Arthrosis needs a multidisciplinary approach, says Professor Jaap Harlaar. He brings experts from different university medical centres together to unr...
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‘There’s still much to discover in developmental biology’25 June 2020It is the dream of Professor Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes to grow fertile egg cells in the lab. But she says there is a long way to go in her disciplin...
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Immunologist Ton Schumacher wins NWO Stevin Prize23 June 2020Ton Schumacher, professor by special appointment in Immunotechnology at the LUMC and group leader of Molecular Oncology and Immunology at the Netherla...
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Spinoza Prize for Leiden cell biologist, immunologist and chemist Sjaak Neefjes23 June 2020Sjaak Neefjes, Professor of Chemical Immunology at Leiden University, will receive the NWO Spinoza Prize this year. The Spinoza Committee called Neefj...
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How Leiden's drug pioneers have switched to Covid research22 June 2020From studying molecules in the blood of corona patients to developing a new concept for vaccines. The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)...
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New professor wants to improve care for sarcoma patients17 June 2020
Doctors should work with patients with bone and soft-tissue tumours to find the best personal treatment strategy says Prof. Michiel den de Sande. He h...
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LUMC involved in development of novel drugs to treat and prevent SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses10 June 2020The Department of Medical Microbiology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) is researching antiviral drugs that could treat and prevent SARS-CoV...
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Grant for Elastix medical imaging software03 June 2020LUMC researcher Marius Staring will receive a $ 200,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve the accessibility, interoperability and e...
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Finding the cause of memory loss02 June 2020Memory loss and confusion are signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Physicists Serge Rombouts and Martina Huber have developed new methods to help medical sci...
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LUMC to build largest stem cell facility in the Netherlands28 May 2020The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) will start construction this year of the largest non-profit stem cell and gene therapy facility in the Net...
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First clinical trial with genetically modified malaria vaccine completed20 May 2020In an innovative study, Radboudumc and LUMC jointly tested a candidate vaccine based on a genetically weakened malaria parasite. The results of this c...
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Three new Leiden members of KNAW30 April 2020KNAW has elected eighteen new members, including two professors at Leiden University and one who studied and obtained his PhD in Leiden. The New Acade...
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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’28 April 2020Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing t...