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Man-made antibodies may change the future of drug development – here’s whyImpactmakers 01 May 2025Sometimes an idea seems so logical and elegant at first glance, that you later wonder why no one thought of it before. Two researchers from LACDR have...
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Funding boost for the Living Lab and other outdoor laboratoriesGrant 29 April 2025A consortium of research infrastructures focused on water quality has received €4.18 million in funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This gr...
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Curious, not guided by role models: Kim Bonger appointed professor24 April 2025As of this month, Kim Bonger has been appointed Professor of Chemical Biology. As a first-generation academic, she’s especially grateful. ‘I wasn’t ex...
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Professorship marks the ticking off of an important milestone for Silvestriappointment 24 April 2025Alessandra Silvestri has been appointed professor in Theoretical Physics in the area of Cosmology. For her this promotion in Leiden is the icing on th...
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Call for Nominations Now Open – Krijn Rietveld Memorial Awards 202523 April 2025The Leiden University Fund and dsm-firmenich are proud to open the call for the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Awards 2025. These annual prizes honour innova...
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Common insecticide damages freshwater ecosystems22 April 2025The pesticide thiacloprid turns out to be more harmful than previously thought. It can disrupt the lives of freshwater invertebrates and their communi...
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Five questions for Thijs Bosker about Local Actions22 April 2025Sustainability challenges don’t just call for environmental scientists – they require expertise from many academic fields. Thijs Bosker and Paul Behre...
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From Leiden to Harvard: four questions for Julia Santosfellowship 17 April 2025Eight early-career researchers from around the world have been awarded a 51 Pegasi b Fellowship – a prestigious opportunity for astronomers. Julia San...
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Article from 1984 remains a hit: citation count passes 10,000Mijlpaal 16 April 2025It was already the most cited publication ever written at our faculty, but now a new milestone has been reached. Last month, a paper by emeritus profe...
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Dutch Research Council Open Competition grant for three projects with Leiden researchers14 April 2025Three research projects with researchers from Leiden University have received a Dutch Research Council Open Competition Science-M grant. This is for i...
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Updated nitrogen map and new strategy: How can we meet the nitrogen targets?REPORT 09 April 2025Nitrogen professor Jan Willem Erisman and Ton Brouwer have released a new report presenting scenarios to actually meet the agricultural nitrogen targe...
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Leiden scientists create first-ever dengue-on-a-chip to study this deadly virusOrgan-on-a-chip 08 April 2025Researchers at Leiden University have created a unique model that mimics how disease develops after a dengue infection. This 'dengue-on-a-chip' model ...
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NWO funding for five FWN projects within the Dutch Research AgendaGrant 08 April 2025Can humans perceive single photons? What is our place in the universe? How can we make quantum computers more stable? Five researchers from the Facult...
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Liru Feng wins LION Image Award 2025PHYSICS 07 April 2025Fifty euros, a place on the LION photo wall and eternal fame: this is what the winner of the annual LION Image Award gets. This year, the prize goes t...
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New Horizons in Physics prize for Sebastiaan Haffert: ‘Very honoured’Scientific prize 07 April 2025‘The Oscars of the natural sciences’, is what they are called: the Breakthrough Prizes awarded annually in America by the Breakthrough Foundation. Par...