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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research 23 October 2020The origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...
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Leiden European City of Science in 2022 07 September 2020The title of European City of Science was officially handed over to a delegation from Leiden in the Italian city of Trieste on 6 September. Leiden wil...
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Robert Zwijnenberg: ‘Don’t just talk but dare to get your hands dirty’ 21 July 2020Rob Zwijnenberg, Professor of Art and Science Interactions, uses daring experiments to get his students to think about social issues. "People who I in...
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Maurits Berger: ‘Every researcher should do a social project’ 03 July 2020Maurits Berger worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam and as a journalist and researcher in Egypt and Syria. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Islam in ...
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New online platform Learning with the City 22 June 2020Learning with the City, a partnership between the Municipality of Leiden, Leiden University and University of Applied Sciences Leiden, has a new onlin...
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Leiden spin-off In Ovo awarded 2.5 million grant 10 June 2020Leiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has received a European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot Grant. In Ovo will use th...
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Sara Polak warns about social media: ‘What do you do with those tweets by Trump?’ 25 May 2020Sara Polak, American Studies expert and University Lecturer investigates how American presidents deal with the media and how new, social media influen...
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Open Call How do you experience a quieter city? 18 May 2020How do you experience a quieter city? Or a silenced city? Our cities are normally filled with noise. The corona crisis has changed that. Few or no peo...
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Partnering with businesses to scale up metabolism research 21 February 2020Predicting whether someone will fall ill and which treatment will benefit them most: that is the aim of the techniques that Professor of Analytical Bi...
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Translating science into treatments of rare metabolic disorders 06 February 2020Leiden biotech startup Azafaros has successfully completed a funding round, raising 25 million euros of investments for developing treatments of rare ...
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Negative consequences of antiterrorism policy in Europe 03 February 2020‘It's right and proper that we have policies to prevent terrorism,' says Francesco Ragazzi, university lecturer in International Relations at Leiden's...
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Housebuilding prehistoric style 21 January 2020There’s a Stone Age house at Broekpolder, near the city of Vlaardingen. It wasn’t built by prehistoric people but by modern archaeologists from Leiden...
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‘You end up in a completely different world’ 17 January 2020What did psychology student Jessie learn while working at a psychiatric hospital in The Gambia? And why is Noman from Yemen now studying political sci...
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Tracers that light up tumours help surgeons 07 January 2020How do surgeons avoid causing nerve damage or leaving cancerous cells behind? An interdisciplinary research group at the LUMC hopes to improve operati...
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Better understanding of disease thanks to organs-on-chips 02 December 2019For medical research, researchers often recreate tissue in the lab. Organ-on-a-chip technology emulates organs, right down to the blood that flows thr...