Faculty of Medical Sciences
Become a future health professional for sustainable health and care
How will you help future healthcare thrive? Health inequalities are increasing, our population is ageing and pressure on healthcare keeps rising. At the Faculty of Medicine of Leiden University/LUMC you learn to understand and improve health in all its dimensions. From prevention and innovative treatments to smart use of technology and effective health policies. Your strengths define your path. You make a real impact on peopleโs health while contributing to future-proof care.
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Doctors discover a simple method to predict the risk of brain tumour recurrence -
More health, less care: how can we make this happen? -
How Leiden University is taking action against cancer -
Research improves risk assessment for hereditary breast cancer -
Launch of the Prof. Andrea Evers Fund for Health, Behaviour and Society -
New platform to accelerate cardiac drug development -
New traffic controller discovered on DNA railway -
Professor of Urology Maxime Kummeling: โThe human dimension should guide usโ -
Eleven Open Competition Domain Science ENW XS grants for Leiden researchers -
Marieke Adriaanse appointed as strategic representative of the Healthy Society Programme -
Doctors with a backbone -
Five Leiden contributions to NWO Perspectief projects -
Students come up with creative solutions to make Leiden-Noord healthier -
Keuzegids: seven top bachelor's programmes at Leiden University -
Nearly 200 million for new research buildings and facilities -
โTraining the pharmacists of tomorrow is something we do togetherโ -
โBeing healthy isnโt an individual choice โ it depends on your circumstancesโ -
Why our welfare state doesnโt always reach vulnerable people -
Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant -
LUMC researchers use viruses to fight prostate cancer -
Why early detection of bone disorders matters -
Two young researchers win Krijn Rietveld Award for innovative research on blood donation and colorectal cancer -
Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant -
Thirteen NWO Open Competition XS grants for Leiden researchers -
Three innovative research projects awarded Open Competition Science-M funding -
Does your smartwatch say youโre stressed? It may often be wrong -
Astronomers and surgeons join forces in the operating theatre -
Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers -
From Covid student to biotech entrepreneur: Violette Defourt is working on rapid STI diagnostics -
Leiden scientists join national effort to advance nanomedicine -
LUMC participates in pioneering type 1 diabetes research -
How AI could give doctors more time at the patientโs bedside -
Four Leiden researchers receive ERC Advanced Grant -
Medical milestone at LUMC: first Dutch patient receives CAR T-cell therapy for autoimmune disease -
Delegation from Nagasaki University visits Leiden University -
Leiden researchers receive funding for high-tech research -
AI model predicts risk of infection in postoperative patients -
Live: protest in Wijnhaven building Leiden University -
More research on side-effects: โSide effects are not a side issueโ -
Health Campus explores effect of neighbourhood approach for healthy Hague generation -
Six Medical Delta professors for Leiden -
AI internship for students on reducing administrative burden in healthcare -
NWO Open Competition grants for two research projects -
First time in the cortรจge: โI wanted to be part of itโ -
A real professor in the classroom: โWhat do you like best about your work?โ -
Meta Roestenberg awarded Mercator Sapiens Stimulus for pioneering malaria research -
Jan Anthonie Bruijn: The world cannot survive without interdisciplinary knowledge -
From research to practice: Leiden researchers awarded European grant -
PhD candidate develops new device for diagnosing erectile dysfunction -
Love took Ephrem from a refugee camp to the lecture hall -
Keuzegids: six top bachelor's programmes at Leiden University -
Grants for fundamental research in Leiden -
These were Leiden Universityโs interdisciplinary milestones of 2024 -
Synthetic dataset protects privacy in criminological research -
Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants -
Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university -
โYou cannot expect healthcare professionals in Value-Based Healthcare teams to be able to work together without trainingโ -
Symposium honouring departing LUMC Dean Pancras Hogendoorn -
Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants -
LUMC first medical programme to include AI in curriculum -
Four NWO Open Competition grants for Leiden researchers -
Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University -
Proof of Concept grants for four Leiden researchers -
Young peopleโs experience of mental health problems help improve medical training and practice -
Leiden technology research receives funding from NWO and businesses -
Kiem initiative culminates in plan to apply for larger grant -
Marlies Reinders new Dean of Faculty of Medicine and member of LUMC Board of Directors -
On barriers and bridges: autoimmune rheumatic diseases and the road to a cure -
Alumnus Anne Speckens opened a mindfulness centre in Nijmegen -
Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers -
LIFES: From Reusable Data to New Treatments and Faster Diagnoses -
AI model accurately predicts endometrial cancer recurrence -
King of Sweden visits Leiden University -
Interdisciplinary symposium on restitution policies seeks more diverse perspectives -
Leiden conference to look for emerging trends in global governance -
Student tower opened with cafรฉ, common room and spectacular views -
Whatโs Your Story?: diversiteit in een kaartspel -
Leidenโs poo can help rid patients of resistant gut bacteria -
Leiden University/LUMC to drop cum laude honour for Masterโs in Medicine -
UMCs join forces to increase pandemic preparedness -
โActively listening makes a difference but can be harder than removing a tumourโ -
โMaybe interdisciplinarity could function as a way to change the universityโ -
Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers -
Minor Violence Studies: interesting encounters and flying wooden blocks -
Quality of masterโs programmes assessed in new guide -
How Europe will be better prepared for the next pandemic -
LUMC first hospital with AI admissions predictor for Acute Admissions Unit -
Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University -
Headache e-diary aimed at more personalised help for patients and physicians -
No higher risk of miscarriage after COVID-19 -
'When a deaf child suddenly hears and learns to talk, this also has a huge impact on the people around them.' -
Alumnus Charlotte Poot developed a hospital app for children -
'We aim to continue innovating technologically, but in a relevant manner' -
'We are going to make the world's best eye radiation line' -
Drugs for our immune system in the right place at the right time -
Better treatment of systemic autoimmune diseases requires close collaboration -
Transdisciplinary health improvement in The Hague: โNeighbourhoods tell us what they needโ -
Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines -
Faster diagnosis for rheumatoid arthritis patients may prevent chronic disease -
These were Leiden Universityโs interdisciplinary milestones of 2023