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New professor wants to improve care for sarcoma patients17 June 2020Doctors 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...
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Royal Distinction for archaeologist Maarten Jansen24 April 2020On 24 April it was announced that, following his farewell, archaeologist Professor Maarten Jansen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion....
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories23 April 2020Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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USC online sports a big success20 April 2020How can you stay fit during quarantine? The University Sports Centre may be closed, but online it's even more 'open' than usual.
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Working in intensive care: ‘You can make a real difference here’16 April 2020Many alumni are frontline health workers and are working day and night to treat thousands of corona patients. Intensivist Michael Frank (53) is one of...
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Leiden collaboration supports development of vaccine against coronavirus15 April 2020The Department of Medical Microbiology of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) will investigate the efficacy of a new experimental vaccine from the...
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Help track coronavirus with the LUMC’s COVID Radar app07 April 2020Leiden 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 immunotherapy26 March 2020Strengthening 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...