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Relatively large number of female professors at Leiden University12 December 2019Leiden 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 students09 December 2019Not 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 intelligence05 December 2019Researchers 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 Day05 December 2019Quick 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-chips02 December 2019For 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 2019More 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 cells21 November 2019Geneticist 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 list20 November 2019Seventeen 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 2019With 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 Kong15 November 2019Leiden 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 Hogendoorn07 November 2019Pancras 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 article30 October 2019Master Vitality and Ageing’s (V&A) alumnus Willeke Ravensbergen conducted for her master’s thesis research on the impact of combinations of future tre...
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What do you learn when attending an Open Day?22 October 2019The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors vi...
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‘Alcohol should be the new smoking’21 October 2019It's time for alcohol to be discouraged as strongly as smoking. This is the message given by Professor of Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine Jeroen Jansen ...
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Public Lecture ‘The Role of the Humanities in an Information Age’ by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor18 October 2019Leiden University Libraries invites you to the public lecture by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor. This lecture will be held on Thursday 21 ...