Drug induced organ toxicity is the main problem of the drug development and drug usage in the clinic. The liver and kidneys are the most sensitive organs towards drug induced toxicity.

Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp

The recently introduced nature-originated deep eutectic solvents, so-called natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are considered as truly green solvents, which composed of natural ingredients found abundantly in organisms.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

My work focuses on a class of astronomical objects called protoplanetary disks.

The type-IV secretion system (T4SS) is a machinery able to transfer DNA and proteins between bacteria and in certain cases also to eukaryotic cells.

The glycosylation reaction is a pivotal reaction in creating new and complex oligosaccharides.

Kunnen we van quantum-verrassingen quantum toepassingen maken? Kunnen we het leven onderzoeken en opbouwen vanuit de nano-schaal?

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Prof.dr. M. van Heel

Multicopper oxidase, laccase, can efficiently reduce oxygen to water and are mostly used in the enzymatic biofuel cells.

Promotores: K.J. Batenburg, B. Koren

The soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are renowned for their production of useful secondary metabolites including antibiotics. The work described in this thesis provides new insights on the role and regulation of antibiotic production and resistance in these bacteria.

Het schema hieronder geeft het curriculum weer van het eenjarige fulltime programma van de master Health, Ageing and Society in collegejaar 2024-2025.

In this Ph.D. thesis we study the interaction of low energy electrons with thin materials, namely layered materials (graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, molybdenum disulfide) and organic films. At these low energies the quantum mechanical wavelength of the electron wave function is in the order of a…

More than 5,000 exoplanets have been found over the past couple of decades. These exoplanets show a tremendous diversity, ranging from scorching hot Jupiters, common super-Earths, to widely separated super-Jupiters on the planet/brown dwarf boundary.

The research described in this thesis focused on the use of bioorthogonal antigens to investigate immunological processes in antigen presenting cells. Bioorthogonal antigens are antigenic proteins produced through recombinant expression in a methionine auxotrophic E. coli strain.

Building a Deep Cross-media Transfer Network to extract visual relations that relieve the problem of insufficient training data for visual tasks.

This thesis investigates the contribution of quantum computers to machine learning, a field called Quantum Machine Learning. Quantum Machine Learning promises innovative perspectives and methods for solving complex problems in machine learning, leveraging the unique capabilities of quantum computers…

Actinobacteria are well known for the production of bioactive natural products, many of which have applications in the fields of human, animal and plant health. Subject of this thesis are the anthracyclines, glycosylated aromatic polyketides with potent anticancer activity.

Empirical Legal Studies in Leiden focust op het bouwen van een interdisciplinaire gemeenschap van rechtsgeleerden en sociale wetenschappers die samen juridische vraagstukken onderzoeken op het snijpunt van recht en gedrag, waarbij diverse soorten methoden worden gebruikt.

De maatschappelijke aandacht voor slachtoffers van criminaliteit is de afgelopen decennia enorm gegroeid en zo ook de behoefte aan goed onderzoek op het gebied van de victimologie, de wetenschappelijke studie van slachtoffers en slachtofferschap. Binnen het CJ-onderzoeksprogramma wordt hard gewerkt…

Hieronder wordt per deelnemende universiteit een kort overzicht van lopende programma's en projecten gegeven.

In het tijdschrift Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes wordt deze maand een artikel gepubliceerd van dr. Helen Pluut in samenwerking met Katrina Jia Lin en Remus Ilies van de National University of Singapore, waar Helen voorheen werkzaam was, en met Su-Ying Pan van de Macau University…

From 16 to 18 August, 30 participants from 18 different countries gathered online to participate in the Online Summer Programme: Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Violent Extremism, organised by Leiden University’s Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) together with the International Centre for…

NOSTER, the Dutch National research school for Theology and Religious Studies, organizes a Coptic Course in the fall of 2023. Students can enroll until October 1.

Promotores: R. Tijdeman, K.J. Batenburg

This study’s main aim is to test whether children’s learning behaviour explains why they do not benefit from a literate environment.

Op woensdag 30 november 2016 promoveert Florentin Blanc op zijn proefschrift 'From Chasing Violations to Managing Risks Origins'. De verdediging vindt plaats om 11.15 uur in het Academiegebouw van Universiteit Leiden. De promotor is professor Wim Voermans.

In this thesis, several aspects of software debugging from automated crash reproduction to bug report analysis and use of contracts have been studied.

The LUGO Press is a student publication forum, rooted in academia and journalistic practices and published by the Leiden University Green Office.

Around the world, mindfulness has become big business. This course combines conventional scholarly inquiry from multiple disciplines with experiential learning to provide a responsible, comprehensive, and inclusive education about mindfulness as a contemporary phenomenon.

Deze opleiding biedt de mogelijkheid om onderzoek op moleculair, cellulair en organismaal niveau te verenigen, maar biedt ook de mogelijkheid om je te specialiseren op één van deze niveaus.

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Vrouwen spelen in de Iraanse literatuur over de Iran-Irakoorlog (1980-1988) een belangrijke rol achter het front. Maar verhalen over vrouwen als martelaar zijn een zeldzaamheid. Saeedeh Shahnahpur houdt er 16 februari een lezing over.

Mensenrechten zijn lang het unieke domein van staten geweest. Dat is veranderd met de globalisering en de opkomst van multinationale ondernemingen. De zorg voor fundamentele arbeidsrechten binnen mondiale toeleveringsketens vormt een probleem.

What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?

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Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. F.F.S. van der Tak (RUG)

From Incident to Precedent

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

Dit artikel beschrijft een overzicht van twee decennia na 9/11 in West-Europa. De auteurs kijken naar de ontwikkeling van de dreiging, het contra-terrorismebeleid en de impact hiervan op de samenleving.

Risk has become one of the defining features of modern society. This course examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy,…

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