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Hubertus Irth named Interim Dean of the Faculty of ScienceThe Executive Board has appointed Professor Hubertus Irth as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. Professor Irth will take up ...
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Teaching synthetic molecules how to communicateAlthough Sander Wezenberg just started working in Leiden in March this year, he already managed to win a Vidi grant from NWO. Inspired by nature, Weze...
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SUNRISE initiative’s first stakeholder meetingOver 170 SUNRISE’s stakeholders gathered on June 17-18 at the Academy Palace of Brussels, in connection with the EU Sustainable Energy Week, as one o...
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Student team hopes to heal skin with squid proteinEleven ambitious Leiden students hope to heal burns with a special substance from squid teeth. They are taking part in the international iGEM competit...
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We finally understand how oxygen reacts on platinumPlatinum is a widely used catalyst, but its precise mechanism largely remains a mystery to scientists. Ludo Juurlink has now demonstrated for the firs...
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European collaboration shines a light on enzyme discovery for industryA European consortium has provided a disruptive technological breakthrough to allow the discovery and characterization of novel enzymes for industrial...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchersFrom 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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Only in America: chemist becomes America correspondentChemistry, which is what Hans Klis studied in Leiden, is not what one might expect of a general journalist. ‘I’m a late bloomer,’ he says, despite hav...
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Yoga, inclusiveness and dilemma game at first Science PhD DayMorning yoga, having your resumé checked at the information market, or dancing for inclusiveness: just a small selection of the activities of the firs...
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Large-scale European project identifies risks of nanoparticlesThe large-scale project NanoInformatics will assess the risks associated with nanoparticles. The project will be funded by the EU with 6.8 million eur...
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The hunt for selective drugsHow do you ensure that a drug has an effect on the right protein – and nothing else? Chemist Anthe Janssen explored various methods for determining th...
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Will soap and sunlight solve the energy problem?A consortium of international researchers comes with a unique solution to the energy problem. By mimicking photosynthesis, they aim to produce sustain...
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Two major teaching grants for Leiden lecturersStudying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of t...
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In memoriam professor Mathieu NotebornOn the 5th of April 2019 our dear colleague and friend Professor Dr Mathieu Noteborn has passed away. In January of this year he was diagnosed with bo...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of EcologyProfessor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...