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First time in the cortège: ‘I wanted to be part of it’450 jaar 11 February 2025Is my cap on straight? Where in the cortège will I be walking? These are some of the questions asked by professors joining the Dies Natalis procession...
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A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’Meet the professor 07 February 2025Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights a...
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Meta Roestenberg awarded Mercator Sapiens Stimulus for pioneering malaria research06 February 2025Professor Meta Roestenberg has been awarded the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus 2025 by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). The pri...
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Jan Anthonie Bruijn: The world cannot survive without interdisciplinary knowledgeAfscheidscollege 03 February 2025‘Wonder is the beginning of insight. Don’t let that academic curiosity erode.’ This was Jan Anthonie Bruijn’s call to administrators and funding bodie...
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From research to practice: Leiden researchers awarded European grantImpact 03 February 2025Various Leiden researchers have been awarded a European grant to explore the commercial or societal potential of previous research.
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PhD candidate develops new device for diagnosing erectile dysfunction20 January 2025Erection problems can have a huge impact on quality of life and health, but current diagnostic methods are painful, uncomfortable and technologically ...
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Love took Ephrem from a refugee camp to the lecture hallBetween Ethiopia and Leiden 15 January 2025Raised by his grandmother and grandfather, trained as a doctor, the medical director of a camp for Eritrean refugees: Ephrem Tesfay was anything but a...
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Keuzegids: six top bachelor's programmes at Leiden University19 December 2024Leiden University has six top bachelor's programmes according to Keuzigids universiteiten 2025, a consumer guide to university programmes. This puts L...
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Grants for fundamental research in LeidenNWO Open Competition 18 December 2024Three fundamental research projects at Leiden in physics, chemistry and medical science have received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). T...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202417 December 2024Connecting scientific fields, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind in...
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Synthetic dataset protects privacy in criminological research10 December 2024Few public datasets are available for criminological research, especially when it comes to homicides. Privacy laws often prevent data sharing. The SEN...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants22 October 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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‘You cannot expect healthcare professionals in Value-Based Healthcare teams to be able to work together without training’02 October 2024Value-Based Healthcare in a nutshell? Structural cooperation between healthcare professionals to provide patients with appropriate care and save costs...
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Symposium honouring departing LUMC Dean Pancras Hogendoorn05 September 2024Pancras Hogendoorn bade farewell as Dean of Medicine and Vice-Chairman of the LUMC Board of Directors with a symposium at the LUMC on healthcare, rese...