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Royal honour for Prof. Barend Mons 13 September 2024Royal honour for Prof. Barend Mons. He was made a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He received this award from the mayor of the municipality of ...
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Using low sample volumes to better understand brain diseases 13 June 2023Marlien van Mever delved into the analysis of tiny samples, cerebrospinal fluid from transgenic mouse models for example. She validated methods that c...
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Horizon Europe grant for research into personalised treatment for high blood pressure 18 April 2023Professor Thomas Hankemeier and his international research team HYPERMARKER have received a 10m-euro grant from Horizon Europe and UK Research and Inn...
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Leiden researchers join forces against tuberculosis 24 March 2022About one and a half million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis. For thirty years, therapy with antibiotics has been the same, while it ...
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Virtual children help prevent withdrawal syndrome in real children 25 May 2021When children wean off from heavy medication, they often experience withdrawal symptoms. The severity of these symptoms is often difficult to predict....
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NWO grant for research facility into the impact of environmental factors on health 21 May 2021What is the influence of non-hereditary factors on our health, such as lifestyle, diet and exposure to harmful substances? The Exposome-Scan project, ...
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Predicting and preventing Covid-19: 1 million euros for corona research 17 December 2020How is it that some covid-19 patients are affected much worse than others? Can we predict beforehand which of them will develop critical symptoms Prof...
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Scientists find strong evidence that wasting syndrome is the same for all organisms 10 August 2020An interdisciplinary team of Leiden researchers has discovered that wasting syndrome, a severe byproduct of tuberculosis, is the same for all humans a...
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Predicting and preventing serious COVID-19 symptoms 07 May 2020Scientists in Leiden are looking for signals in blood samples to predict whether patients will develop serious COVID-19 symptoms or not. Based on that...
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Understanding the building blocks of life better 24 January 2020With a grant from NWO, Thomas Hankemeier will develop new methods to better understand the dynamics of the building blocks of life, such as cells, enz...
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26 million for research into the impact of non-genetic factors on health 30 August 2019Who will be affected by certain chronic diseases, and who will not? For 30 percent that depends on heredity factors, whereas no less than seventy perc...