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Make your choice! Three introduction weeks for students at Leiden University29 July 2019
Leiden or The Hague? Dutch or English? These two questions decide which introduction week new students at Leiden University can best choose: EL CID, H...
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EU awards 18 million euros for research into new antibiotics24 July 2019
An international consortium of research groups is aiming to develop novel antibiotics against the tuberculosis bacteria and two other deadly bacteria....
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NWA grant for research into iron nanoparticles in the brain23 July 2019
Physicists Lucia Bossoni and Martina Huber have been awarded an NWA Ideeëngenerator-grant for research into iron nanoparticles in the brain. These nan...
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LUMC Campus The Hague launches new MOOC Population Health: Study Design19 July 2019
What is involved in setting up and carrying out clinical research? To give researchers a helping hand, LUMC Campus The Hague has brought together tips...
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers16 July 2019
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...
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Statistical ‘rockstar’ Brad Efron opens Leiden statistics centre19 June 2019
He is said to be one of the greatest living statisticians. Bradley Efron gave a lecture in Marekerk and opened LUXs, the Leiden University Center for ...
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future19 June 2019
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary o...
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Dutch National Research Agenda supports five ‘Leiden’ public-private projects12 June 2019
The Dutch National Research Agenda announced today that it will provide 17 research projects with a total of 61 million euros in funding. Researchers ...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers23 May 2019
From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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Magic moments at Museum Night20 May 2019
Leiden University opened its doors on Leiden Museum Night, with a whole host of things to see and do at the Academy Building, Hortus botanicus and Old...
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Little proof that doping really works14 May 2019
The list of substances prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is huge. PhD candidate Jules Heuberger looked at many of these, as well as at...
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MDMA and virtual reality as trauma treatment14 May 2019
Military veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder often have symptoms that are both chronic and complex. Professor by Special Appointment Eric Verm...
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‘Sickness and health have become a continuum’13 May 2019
Professor of Health Psychology Andrea Evers is one of the coordinators of the national Health and Wellbeing programme and of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus ...
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‘Technological developments should be applied to patient care at a much faster rate’03 May 2019
An MRI scanner is much more than a machine alone. It is an extremely versatile technique that provides numerous opportunities for finding out more abo...
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Join the Population Health Management Summer School Fundamentals29 April 2019
An aging population, rising healthcare costs and technical developments in the medical sector. Do you want to know the best way of dealing with curren...