In the media
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Unlocking the potential of small molecules in cancer therapy 30 January 2024How can we translate more fundamental discoveries into clinical solutions for patients? From that question, the Oncode Accelerator programme emerged. ...
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Sander Wezenberg receives the first "C2W Molecule of the Year" award 18 January 2024The molecule calix[4]pyrrole, synthesised in the group of associate professor Sander Wezenberg at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, has been voted ‘M...
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NWO-XS grants for two innovative research projects 12 December 2023Two Leiden Science researchers received an NWO-XS grant for their research. Both projects are highly promising, but also high-risk. Macrophages that t...
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How Euclid will reveal the dark side of the Universe 07 December 2023ESA’s Euclid mission is to reveal the dark side of the Universe. But how? Professor of Observational cosmology Henk Hoekstra explains it in his interv...
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How can the voices of African scientists be heard? 22 November 2023African researchers want more international research collaborations for better representation in the scientific community. As of now, their voices are...
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Opening of new DNA-GER research network 27 October 2023On October 26, the Dutch Embassy in Berlin celebrated the opening of a new research network for Dutch academics in Germany. Dutch minister of Educatio...
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Translational data science: applications in health care 05 October 2023How can you tie together scientific research and practical applications? That is exactly what Professor of Translational Data Science Marco Spruit is ...
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Urban green infrastructure: making future cities more sustainable 07 August 2023Urban green infrastructure has the ability to make make cities more sustainable. However, the exact implementation of green infrastructure and the cho...
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023Researchers found a way to run programmes that should be impossible to carry out on an imperfect quantum computer. Such programmes are very computatio...
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‘In a normal murder case, you actually have a body’ statistician Richard Gill says in Science 02 February 2023After diving into the murder trial of nurse Lucia de Berk, statistician Richard Gill became a leading expert on the statistics of medical murder cases...
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The urban mine is full of resources, but a circular economy is still too ambitious 31 January 2023Reuse everything and stop producing waste. By 2050, the Netherlands should have a circular economy. However, the new Integral Circular Economy Report ...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year 05 January 2023Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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The search for a ‘quantum advantage’ 12 December 2022Proving a quantum computer to be quicker than a normal one is one step closer. After a breakthrough in speeding up classical algorithms, researchers V...
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Mathematics student Lars Pos wins Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize: 'Discoveries find their application in the most unexpected places' 25 November 2022With his essay 'Why science?', mathematics prodigy Lars Pos (18) won the Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize. Within the theme 'The fascinating workings of ...