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Vidi grants for eight researchers from Leiden University
Eight scientists from Leiden University have been awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this Vidi funding, the researchers can set up an innovative line of research and further expand their own research group over the next five years.
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Graphene is a thoroughbred that has to be tamed
Electrons in graphene behave like light particles; they have no mass and can penetrate everything: very useful if you dream about nano-electronics. But you do have to channel them. Carlo Beenakker will be researching how. He has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 1.5 million euro to carry out this…
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Omid Karami receives the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award during festive ceremony
In a festive and intimate award ceremony, plant scientist Omid Karami received the first edition of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award out of the hands of Wim Klop, Director of the Biotechnology Center at DSM. Several speakers spoke about Krijn Rietveld and why Karami deserves the prize that…
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Biology brothers write book about nature and adventure in Eastern Europe: 'I didn't know there live pelicans in Romania'
With a self-converted red camper van, biologists and twin brothers Kevin and Marvin Groen go on a nature adventure in Eastern Europe. Together, they search for wild animals, beautiful nature and places to sport. From a long search for a bear in the Slovakian wilderness to the discovery that pelicans…
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The launch of a new era: Leiden and the James Webb telescope (part II)
After 25 years, December will finally see the launch of the long-awaited James Webb space telescope. Leiden astronomers are watching with great excitement: not only were they involved in the construction of important instruments on board, the telescope will also reveal many new secrets of the universe,…
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Screening enormous databases to find a cure for cancer
Pharmaceutical research should make more use of data science, says Gerard van Westen, postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). ‘If we want to have better drugs, we should start with data.’
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Leiden strengthens ties with Latin America and Caribbean
On 15 May, the ambassadors of 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries were shown the highlights of research at Leiden University Faculty of Science. Furthermore, Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme awarded prizes to two young academics who conduct research in Latin America.
- Van Marum Colloquium: Guilty as charged: Electrochemical control over the charge carrier density in colloidal semiconductor nanomaterials
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms - October 2024
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Some Contexts and Practices of S&T Foresight and Impact Assessment in Japan
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- Public graduation presentation, Hussein Aldin
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Nathaniel MartinScience
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Regulation of signal transduction pathways by hypoxia in breast cancer subtypes
PhD defence
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Multifunctional Polypept(o)ide Miktoarm Star Polymers for Advanced Drug Delivery
PhD defence
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Reedijk Symposium 2024: Histone HBb: an essential DNA-bending histone in bacteria
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Structural biochemistry of the pentraxins
PhD defence
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Van Marum Colloquium: Unraveling the mechanism of CO2 catalytic reduction by an iron porphyrin through spectroelectrochemical analysis
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Van Marum Colloquium: Biologically Inspired Catalytic Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Technologies
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Deciphering myeloid (progenitor) cell function and communication in (tumor) tissues
PhD defence
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Bridging the gap between physics and chemistry in early stages of star formation
PhD defence
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Tail Regeneration in the Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko)
PhD defence
- Volume 13 (2018)
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BPOC Lecture: Electrocatalytic Water Splitting Under External Magnetic Fields: Mechanistic Understanding and Experimental Evidences
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To do a PhD or not to do a PhD? Speed date about it with alumni!
Career and apply for jobs
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2018 Hall of Fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Complementary routes towards precision urologic surgery: image guidance technologies and standardized training programmes
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Mining the kinematics of discs to hunt for planets in formation
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Targeting ocular malignancies using a novel light-activated virus-like particle conjugate
PhD defence
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Museumnacht Boerhaave - Adventerous Microbiology
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Proteomics and functional investigation of SUMO and ubiquitin E3 ligases
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Liposome-based vaccines for immune modulation: from antigen selection to nanoparticle design
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Getting personal: Advancing personalized oncology through computational analysis of membrane proteins
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Using cryo-EM methods to uncover structure and function of bacteriophages
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- Special Lecture: Making Sense of the Universe
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Isotopes and the characterization of extrasolar planets
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Van Marum Colloquium: High precision kinetics of elementary surface reactions: Quantitative comparison of experiment and theory
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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Visit by Members of Parliament highlights interdisciplinary research and collaboration
High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this possible: these were the topics covered in a working visit of the Standing Committee for Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to the Association of Universities…
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In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 – 2023: Unlocking the Chemistry of the Heavens
With great sadness we share the news that Prof. Harold Linnartz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 31 December 2023. We are all in shock, and our thoughts are with his wife and children, other family, and friends. Harold was at the heart of our institute, as a researcher, as a supervisor,…
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Eiko Fried in APS on Open Science
Although open science reforms have contributed to a more rigorous and robust psychological science, there is still much to improve. In Association for Psychological Science (APS), Eiko Fried points out two norms that open science reforms may have overlooked so far: communalism and universalism. 'Incorporating…
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Seeking balance in a changing world and university
The world around us is changing. What does that mean for the future of Europe, on this turbulent world stage? And what does it mean for our teaching, and for the expectations that Leiden University has of its students? These were the key questions during the opening of the 2018-2019 academic year on…
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Only in America: chemist becomes America correspondent
Chemistry, which is what Hans Klis studied in Leiden, is not what one might expect of a general journalist. ‘I’m a late bloomer,’ he says, despite having spent four years as America correspondent and written a book on notorious school shootings by the tender age of 34.
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Reedijk Symposium 2024: Covalent Inhibitors for the Proteome-wide Identification of New Druggable Targets for Antibiotics
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Tailoring medicines for the genetically diverse African populations
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Van Marum Colloquium: Active surface adsorbate structure and complex materials exploration with Bayesian optimization
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Van Marum Colloquium: Solvent-solute relation in the double layer theory: from diluted solutions to solvent-in-salt systems to ionic liquids
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Van Marum Colloquium: Electrocatalytic transformations in Li-ion Battery Electrolytes
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