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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga awarded ERC Starting Grant22 November 2022Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enab...
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Tackle debt with healthcare funds: researchers on a healthier society for all16 November 2022Technology, medical knowledge, social measures and the design of the living environment: all these needed to achieve a healthier society. In a series ...
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From acute care maze to acute care network10 November 2022Acute care agencies in the Netherlands are overwhelmed and this causes major problems. Physician-researcher Naomi Minderhout therefore spent the past ...
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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands10 November 2022How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society C...
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Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorn appointed as Professor Law and Health09 November 2022Starting 1 October 2022, Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorn has been appointed as Professor Law and Health.
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What rights do donors have?30 September 2022Collaboration is worthwhile. A joint LUMC and Leiden Law School project has received €142,500 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will a...
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Health Campus The Hague: working together for better health and care30 September 2022Better health for all the residents of The Hague region. This is the mission of Health Campus The Hague – formerly LUMC Campus The Hague. Eight partne...
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers11 July 2022Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura...
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Antibiotic treatments make us more susceptible to negative emotions08 July 2022People who have taken antibiotics in the past three months pay more attention to negative facial expressions, according to research by postdoc Katerin...
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Joining forces for a Healthy and Happy The Hague05 July 2022Numerous of enthusiastic administrators, professionals, policy makers, and citizens gathered last week for an assembly organised by ‘Gezond en Gelukki...
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'Public authorities insufficiently aware of obligations arising from freedom of choice of healthcare provider’30 June 2022Is the right to choose your healthcare provider protected in the Dutch Constitution? What are the consequences then for the Dutch healthcare system? P...
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Clashing fundamental rights in KLM labour dispute23 May 2022Can the KLM reject an applicant for a job as a pilot or stewardess if they refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19? Or put more broadly: can the emp...
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‘Using real-world data to enhance our healthcare system’17 May 2022On 16 May 2022, Professor Michel Wouters from the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), will deliver ...
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NWA grant for health law as part of NWA Cure4life24 March 2022Mirjam Sombroek, Aart Hendriks and Martine de Vries (LUMC) will work on mapping the ethical and legal aspects of gene therapy. The aim is to establish...
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Funding for Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm for health law research10 March 2022Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm has been awarded contract funding for research conducted for the intervention programme ‘Nu Niet Zwanger’ (Not Pregnant Now)...