The Master Vitality and Ageing will equip you with the kind of knowledge and academic skills that will enable you to enhance the lives of our senior citizens. As no other, you will be primed to play a key role in improving the future of our ageing society.

From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine.

Here you find the curriculum of the master programmes of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology.

Do you have any questions about the master's specialisation Health and Medical Psychology? Please contact us.

Welcome to LUMC! As you start you will probably have many questions: What will education in LUMC look like? What do you need to know about the corona-measures within the LUMC buildings? Below we list where you can find more information, and what the latest updates are on the measures.

Conference

The Biomedical Sciences Master programme in Leiden will help to deepen and broaden your understanding of human health and disease. We provide you with a challenging and flexible programme in a personalized environment.

The quality of the care for our senior citizens could be improved. With an eye for the biological, medical and social aspects, this Master’s programme provides important insights for improvements. The Master’s in Vitality and Ageing starts you thinking, puts you to work and gives direction to your c…

Inaugural Lecture

Inaugural Lecture

By analysing the metabolism using big data techniques, we can identify health risks at an earlier stage. Thomas Hankemeier, professor of Analytical Biosciences at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, explains how that works.

The major aim is to examine the potential of learning the body to produce a similar physiological (autonomic, neuroendocrine, or immune) and physical (e.g., desensitization of persistent physical symptoms) response to placebo medication than to active medication (pharmacological conditioning). If proven…

Assistant Professor at the Metabolomics group, LUMC, The Nederlands

This partnership is based on an academic collaboration between the Leiden University Medical Center and the Institute of Public Administration, research has been conducted on leadership in the domain of health care in times of crisis.

Are you interested in studying the Health and Medical Psychology master's programme at Leiden University? Find out how to apply by following the step-by step guide in the application and admission section.

The Executive Committee consists of the following members:

The major aim of the Health and Medical Psychology specialisation is to provide you with the theoretical background and professional skills required for health and medical psychology research and interventions. Health and Medical Psychology looks at how health, illness, and recovery are affected…

PhD Defence

This Master’s in Vitality and Ageing gives you the insight, knowledge and skills to change elder care. This change is needed in order to guarantee care for senior citizens in the future, but also offers solutions for growing old more happily and with more vitality.

As an academic strategic partner of PHM, you have the skills to look and act across domains and integrally in solving complex healthcare issues. This is requested in a wide range of healthcare organizations and businesses and government.

Nataliia Machushynets (IBL) and Yevhenii Radchenko (LIC) are two PhD candidates from Ukraine. They collect goods for their homecountry. Please find all the details below and support their initiative!

On the basis of the characteristic aspects of a picture, certain computers can tell us what the picture is showing. They can learn this in the same way that young children are able to learn to recognize images. Further improving these techniques opens the way to a whole range of new applications. Biology…

On the basis of the characteristic aspects of a picture, certain computers can tell us what the picture is showing. They can learn this in the same way that young children are able to learn to recognize images. Further improving these techniques opens the way to a whole range of new applications. Biology…

New technology offers many new possibilities for research, such as on dementia. ‘Organ-on-a-chip’ is a new technology in which small bits of organ are grown out of stem cells on a small plastic plate. A small piece of blood vessel, heart or nerve offers many new possibilities for research, such as…

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Leiden University Medical Center with the University of Indonesia

The research group ‘Quantum and Society’ explores the boundary between quantum technology and science communication.

Since the late 1990s, Leiden University has been located in two cities: Leiden and The Hague. Leiden Law School is also involved in teaching and research at Campus The Hague.

Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the institute of Prehistory, Volume II.

The physical landscape is the setting in which human activities take place. Landscape and site context during human occupation is one of the areas of concern for the geoarchaeologist. A detailed stratigraphical study -both on- and off-site- clearly enhances the interpretation of the archaeologists,…

Jasper de Bruin, Guus Besuijen, Hans Siemons & Jeroen van Zoolingen (2012). De romeinse nederzetting bij het tegenwoordige Goedereede heeft waarschijnlijk een belangrijke functie gehad in de overslag en distributie van diverse goederen, waaronder keramiek en voedingsgewassen. De opgraving van deze nederzetting…

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

Lecture

Medicine/LUMC

The Leiden University Center for Statistical Science unites the statisticians teaching and researching at Leiden University.

Completing your Master’s in Biology gives you an internationally recognised degree which you can follow up with a PhD track. With your acquainted skills, you’re a much requested professional in and outside research.

Mr. Jan van den Berg defended his thesis on 8 November 2018

Research projects

Empirical and experimental research focusing on literary, legal, medical and audiovisual translation.

Education in (Chinese) Medicinal Plants associated to the Hortus botanicus in Leiden - Which Traditional Chinese Medicinal plants can be grown in the Hortus? - Establishing of a database which Chinese medical plants are available in Dutch Botanical Gardens - Data validation (correct identification,…

Do you wish to contact us for further information on the collaboration between Leiden University and Indonesia?

Bas Goulooze is our Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research's nominee for the C.J. Kok Jury Award 2020.

If you wish to know exactly what is going on in a healthy or sick human body, and at various levels such as molecule, cell, tissue, organ, larger systems and a person as a whole? Do you wish to learn how to do research which contributes to diagnoses, treatment and prevention of diseases? Then the bachelor…

For questions regarding education, you can go to the Student Services Center (SSC, ground floor). For other questions, you can go to the unit’s secretariat.

A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University Medical Center with Boston Children’s Hospital in the USA.