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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes 23 February 2023
How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support 22 February 2023
A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Grants to build large-scale research facilities 20 February 2023
Five projects with researchers from Leiden University have received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to build or upgrade existing researc...
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Eleven master’s students start research into sustainable hospitals 13 February 2023
February 8 saw the launch of the Medical Delta ‘Sustainable Hospitals’ Interdisciplinary Thesis Lab. From insight into the environmental impact of hea...
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LUMC researchers: matching medication to DNA leads to 30% fewer side effects 03 February 2023
According to an international group of researchers led by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), patients experience 30% fewer serious side effects ...
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LUMC researchers: high levels of lipids in blood protect against allergies 02 February 2023
People with relatively high levels of lipids in their blood are less likely to develop allergic conditions such as eczema and asthma. These lipids cau...
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‘We shouldn’t lump all microorganisms together’ 31 January 2023
Hermelijn Smits is Professor of Host-commensal Interactions and Immune Modulation. In this role she is increasing our current understanding of the way...
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Can type 1 diabetes be cured? 27 January 2023
Eelco de Koning takes us on a journey through time. He explains what type 1 diabetes is, how it is currently treated and what the future for patients ...
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The more time, the better the kidney 26 January 2023
There are never enough donor organs. And the organs that there are have to be transplanted at lightning speed. Medical science is therefore working ha...
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Maureen Rutten-van Mölken: ‘Invest in innovations that produce the most health benefits‘ 26 January 2023
Digital medical technology can help provide affordable care and solve the shortage of health workers. But how do you know if an innovation actually ad...
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Why COVID-19 caused a pandemic (whereas other coronaviruses did not) 24 January 2023
Epithelial cells play a crucial role in the lungs. PhD student Ying Wang researched the effects of cigarette smoke and viruses such as COVID-19 on the...
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Medical Delta professor: ‘You can talk about collaboration until the cows come home but at some point, you actually have to start doing it’ 19 January 2023
Patients and healthcare providers use Remote Patient Management platforms to exchange information with each other. New methods like this are desperate...
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People with an eating disorder benefit from eHealth 17 January 2023
Eating disorders develop gradually and it often takes a long time for people with an eating disorder to seek help and receive treatment. This ‘treatme...
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Specialised immune cells have potential for new cancer immunotherapies 12 January 2023
Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) have discovered how specialised immune cells can detec...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...