Fascinated by science since high school, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is driven to explore new ways of thinking in medicine. With a strong academic network...

Medicines do not follow the one size fits all principle, because genetic differences can influence their efficiency. That is what research by PhD cand...

Medicines are becoming increasingly precise and innovative, but at the same time increasingly expensive. With their innovations, it is up to universit...

Embryonic stem cells have the remarkable ability to develop into any type of cell. On their way to become for example a liver or a heart cell, they mu...

Cancer is one of the main causes of death in the Netherlands. Leiden researchers are working to improve the treatment of different types of cancer in ...

It is a stormy Sunday afternoon, with gusts of a whopping 110 kilometres per hour. Chemist Teun Sweere defies the enormous headwind on his city bike a...

It sounds futuristic, but it is possible: the creation of miniature organs of patients in order to study them and see how diseases develop and can be ...

Potential drugs that seem promising in the lab, but don’t show any activity in a person: they cost the industry an incredible amount of time and money...

Comparing individual health data with group data allows doctors to give personalised advice and patients to learn from one another's experiences. Wess...

Edith Schippers, Minister of Health, will be investing six million euros over the coming four years to boost research on new antibiotics. The programm...

Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center have joined the Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH), further strengthening the academic ne...

Researchers at Leiden University have made a breakthrough in the study of the hereditary Pompe disease. Together with colleagues in York, they have de...

The Clinical Epidemiology department at the LUMC has set up a series of lectures for asylum seekers. The series has become a huge success.