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‘A week feels like a month at the National Think Tank’In the National Think Tank (NDT) 20 young academics spend four months reflecting on how to solve a societal problem. Four participants from Leiden tol...
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Correcting each other’s mistakes - why cells stuck together in early evolutionThe transition from single cells to multicellular organisms was a key step in evolution. Researchers from Leiden and Amsterdam developed a mathematica...
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Robbin Bastiaansen on thesis award: ‘This proves you should never give up’Using mathematics as a weapon against desertification. With this subject, Robbin Bastiaansen managed to win the C.J. Kok Jury Prize 2019, the prize fo...
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Cells ‘walk’ to firm groundA new mathematical model may explain how body cells get their shapes and what makes them move within a tissue. The model provides fundamental knowledg...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely settingFrom a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Leiden scientists develop topological barcodes for folded moleculesThe team of Alireza Mashaghi at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research has found a way to determine and classify the shape of proteins. Their ne...
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A mathematical shoe-tying awardKnots come in all shapes and sizes: mariners and scouts can vouch for this. Sjabbo Schaveling will obtain his PhD on 1 September for a mathematical me...
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New scanning method turns objects inside out at high speedWhat if you could watch a CT scan live, instead of analysing the images afterwards? If it is up to the Leiden mathematician Jan-Willem Buurlage, that ...
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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publicationThe leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The reason for this is t...
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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by EscherTwenty years onwards, in a review of an Escher exhibition in Italy, Nature Physics writes about it again: Leiden mathematicians helping Escher out. A ...
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NETWORKS consortium receives COFUND grant from European CommissionThe Gravitation programme NETWORKS has been awarded a COFUND grant of 3 million euros. Half of this comes from the European Commission's Marie Skłodow...
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Hardly an audience and a remote committee: receiving a PhD in times of coronaAlmost all PhD defences at Leiden University have been postponed due to the corona virus, but statistician Sanne Willems is going through with hers. I...
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Leiden statisticians create app for patients and doctors to calculate cancer survival probabilitiesA new app is able to calculate personalised survival probabilities for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. Doctors and patients can use the a...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientistsLeiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020German mathematician Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020 at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden. He held the Kloosterman Lecture on 6 Fe...