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Eight professors receive double appointment simultaneously16 November 2022Delft, Nov. 15th, 2022 – Today, eight professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta professors’ at Leiden University, LUMC, TU Delft, E...
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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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ZonMw grant for major research into causes of dementia11 November 2022The Mechanisms Of DEMentia (MODEM) research project has received a €5,9m grant from ZonMw. Within this collaboration, several parties, including the L...
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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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More attention needs to be paid to prevention in the fight against cancer10 November 2022On 11 November Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Monique van Leerdam will deliver her inaugural lecture entitled, ‘Aiming for Prevention’....
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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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Peak movement in afternoon and evening linked to lower risk of diabetes02 November 2022People who move most in the afternoon and evening are less insulin resistant than people who move mainly in the morning or spread throughout the day. ...
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Advocating for gene therapies for rare diseases25 October 2022‘If we don’t start talking about this, who else will?’ This is what Arjan Lankester, paediatrician/immunologist at the Leiden University Medical Cente...
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Three Leiden researchers receive ERC Synergy Grant25 October 2022Leiden researchers Arjen Doelman, Tom Huizinga and Manfred Wuhrer have been awarded ERC Synergy Grants worth millions of euros for their research on p...
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High school students at the Open Day: 'I want to do my own thing'24 October 2022Last Saturday, the Turfmarkt in The Hague, where during the week thousands of commuters make their way to the many ministries in the city centre, was ...
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LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers18 October 2022Anke Smits and Lucien van Beek have been awarded a Praesidium Libertatis Grant this year. Smits is an assistant professor at the LUMC and Van Beek at ...
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LUMC signs international agreement on developing Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products13 October 2022Skåne University Hospital, Lund University and Leiden University Medical Center will work together to expand their research, teaching and development ...
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‘Cancer treatment should be a six-week life event’10 October 2022When internist Christian Blank made his very first discovery, his field of immunotherapy was the underdog of cancer research. Now, over 20 years later...
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Another successful collaboration between Leiden Law School and LUMC04 October 2022Researchers from Leiden Law School and the LUMC have received a grant for a joint research project. They will be looking into ways in which caregivers...
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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...