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New Science Library Open 15 April 2024
From study places to consulting collections and from a meeting with your faculty liaison to getting books after opening hours: the new Science Library...
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Back to your roots: Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event 04 March 2024
Over 100 Leiden University alumni gathered in the heart of Brussels for the annual Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event on 29 February. The European Bankin...
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Joke Bouwstra is the first woman to receive the Dr Saal van Zwanenberg Honorary Prize: 'Wonderful to be in a line of distinguished scientists' 16 November 2023
Emeritus professor Joke Bouwstra (LACDR) will receive this year's Dr Saal van Zwanenberg Ereprijs: a tribute to her years of fundamental research on t...
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New treatments for life-threatening disease sepsis 12 July 2023
Due to the increasing resistance to certain antibiotics, the life-threatening condition sepsis is becoming harder to treat. For her PhD project, Leide...
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Sjoert van Velzen receives Vidi grant to solve 'riddles from the universe' 29 June 2023
Minuscule elementary particles from space colliding with Earth can give us an insight into the distant objects they come from. But first, you need to ...
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From chemistry teacher to founder of outdoor escape room company 15 June 2023
Alumnus Vincent Renken studied Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences in Leiden and is now co-founder of an outdoor escape room company. ‘I asked myself: do you ...
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Prize for production of sustainable rose smell 14 June 2023
Sustainable rose smell that can be produced on a large scale. Tobias Fecker made this into a possibility during his master's thesis, which was a colla...
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’ 13 June 2023
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to ...
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Alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra: a passionate speaker with a background in neuroscience 20 April 2023
Her plan was to obtain a PhD, but, during her master’s, alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra discovered that her true interest is in applying neuroscience in eve...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023
The 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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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros 09 January 2023
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial int...
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From inquisitive exchange student to Californian dream job 15 December 2022
As an exchange student, alumna Jessica Ma was already looking for a bridge between statistics and the real world. In Leiden, she gained the experience...
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Old tradition of ‘golden PhDs’ reinstated 06 December 2022
Black-and-white photographs filled with solemn young men and distinguished professors line the walls of the Grand Auditorium. Young women are missing ...
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Children become bacteria to learn about antibiotics 21 November 2022
Last Friday the global Antibiotics Awareness Week begun: an entire week dedicated to antibiotic use. Antibiotics researchers from the LACDR therefore ...
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How chemist Marc Tijhuis left business to change the world 15 September 2022
Halfway through his career alumnus Marc Tijhuis made a radical change: he left the corporate world to join the global battle against waste with the In...