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India’s First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism
V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early twentieth century. Despite being hailed as the ‘very voice of international conscience’, he is now a largely forgotten figure.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Bio-Pharmaceuticalr Sciences at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for BioTherapeutics at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Step-by-step plan for choosing a Master's
Choosing a master’s programme can be quite a challenge. The following roadmap will help you with making your choice. You will discover which master’s programmes suit your interests and how to best make your choice.
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Research projects
An overview of research projects at the Predictive Pharmacology group.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Health, Ageing and Society at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for European Law at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Astronomy and Cosmology at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Astronomy Research at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Astronomy and Instrumentation at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Astronomy and Education at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Comparative Criminal Justice (MSc) at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Master's application and admission
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Master's application and admission
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Recalibrating India’s Middle East Policy
After an initial suggestion of a move toward Israel, India’s Prime Minister Modi has signaled a significant recalibration of his government’s engagement with the Middle East region. Now, India seems to be prioritising strong ties with the Gulf states.
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Control processes in children’s word productions
How does task context affect children’s word productions?
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Magnetic Resonance Microimaging of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent neurodegenerative disorder and the primary cause of dementia. The neuropathological features of AD include the occurrence of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, decreased synaptic density, and loss of neurons. An obstacle in the study and treatment…
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LIC Lecture - Target elucidation through target degradation: discovery of BET bromodomains as the target of Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor-1
Lecture
- WHAT's NEW?! Spring Lecture Series
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Sign of approval by the Spanish Inquisition
Book historian Erik Kwakkel found an intriguing snippet of text earlier this week, that bears unexpected evidence of some of the problems encoutered by early printers: censorship and the affiliated fuss of seeking and printing Church approval.
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Student parties faculty council intoduce themselves: Christelijke Studentenfractie Leiden
This year’s University elections will be held from 25 to 29 May. You get to choose who will represent you this coming year in the University Council as well as the faculty council of the Science Faculty. This week, the various student parties will introduce themselves. Today: Christelijke Studentenfractie…
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Student parties faculty council intoduce themselves: Liberale Studentenpartij
This year’s University elections will be held from 25 to 29 May. You get to choose who will represent you this coming year in the University Council as well as the faculty council of the Science Faculty. This week, the various student parties will introduce themselves. Today: Liberale Studentenparti…
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Room for everyone at a sun-drenched EL CID
Thousands of first-year students and hundreds of mentors kicked off the EL CID on Monday morning. This year for the first time, the introduction week of Leiden University and Leiden University of Applied Sciences was also open for students of Regional Training Centre mboRijnland and the Leiden Instrument…
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on the Modular Nature of Word and Sentence Phonology in Chinese Broca's Patients
This book investigates the effects of brain lesions in the left hemisphere, specifically Broca's area, on the production and perception of vowels, of word tones and of the linguistic use of sentence melody.
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Children’s Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy
On 26 juni 2018, Claire Achmad defended her doctoral thesis 'Children’s Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy: Exploring the Challenges from a Child Rights, Public International Law Perspective'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. Dr. Mariëlle Bruning.
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Conrad's Shadow Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory
Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths?
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International Children's Rights (Advanced LL.M.)
Are you thinking about studying this Advanced LL.M. International Children's Rights? Learn more and watch the videos.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Law and Society (MSc) at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Public International Law at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Assessing Legislation for Libya’s Reconstruction
An assessment of Libyan legislation
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The Ra's al-jinz project (Oman)
The Ra’s al-jinz project tackles economic diversification and social complexity in non-urban societies, from the perspective of Eastern Arabia, by exploring the Early Bronze Age settlement of Ra’s al-jinz RJ-3.
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Regulating shadow banking - China's perspective
On 24 May 2017, the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law welcomed Shen Wei, Dean and Professor of law at Shandong University School of Law in China, for the 14th Hazelhoff Guest Lecture.
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NWO grant for smart software that searches for new medicines
Gerard van Westen and his group, together with pharmaceutical company Galapagos, start on developing software that invents new effective molecules. They will receive an NWO LIFT grant of 280,000 euros, of which 63,000 euros will come from Galapagos. The company will also bring its expertise in biology,…
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Research
The current projects of the Molecular Physiology group focus on proteins of the endocannabinoid system, kinases and antibacterial targets. MSc- and BSc-students can contact Jessica van Krimpen-Kraaijenoord to apply for research internships.
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Research
Through metabolism, biochemical processes give rise to the complexity of life. Acquired and inborn errors in metabolism underlie many diseases occurring in man. The challenge for present day medical biochemistry is to find, and integrate, pieces of information at molecular, cell and organismal level…
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Inverse Agonism and Constitutive Activity
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Making educational innovations practical for teachers
How to make educational innovations practical for teachers
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Lipid signaling in brain diseases
Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease are the most common neurodegenerative disorders. Unfortunately, no effective treatments are currently available to halt the progression of these neuroinflammatory diseases [1].
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Gerard van Westen: 'Our model predicts what candidate drugs do in your body'
He’s a fast and animated speaker, which is only logical because Gerard van Westen is driving an express train. His destination? A virtual human, consisting of algorithms that predict what an administered substance will do in the body. The train is already a long way down the line and the pharmaceutical…
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Next444 Roundtable Report
How do we make tomorrow more sustainable, equitable, fair, and just? On the evening of 5 February scholars gathered in the conference room of Grand Café The Burcht to discuss this grand question at the Next444 Roundtable. Organized by the Young Academy Leiden as one of the final events of the Leiden…
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About us
Leiden Observatory is the astronomical institute of the Faculty of Science of Leiden University.
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Levant: Deir Alla (Jordan)
This long term project in Jordan is at the basis of many specialists’ studies and has several off-shoot projects. The project, with its many approaches, is also a framework for much teaching in Levantine Archaeology at Leiden University, especially concerning fieldwork methods, artefact studies, research…
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About the programme
The two-years MSc programme spans the entire spectrum of Analytical BioSciences, Biopharmaceutics, Drug Delivery Technology, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology.
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About the Programme
How does the human mind work? Why are some speeches totally persuasive, and others less so? How do children acquire language so effortlessly? During your BA in Linguistics you will be immersed in the intellectual universe of language and communication and its profound implications for every aspect of…
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Research
An overview of the research at the Cancer Dug Target Discovery group.
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Modernization and U.S. Service Programs
The project explores the role of modernization theory in the development of two foreign and domestic service programs: the Peace Corps and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). The Peace Corps has long been understood as a modernizing effort in a Cold War context, and this project will further investigate…
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Food. Rethinking global security. Earth's Future.
Today, humanity produces sufficient calories, in theory, to feed the 7.7 billion people on the planet: the amount of food produced per person on the planet has gone up more than 40% since the 1960s. Yet, ironically, the prevalence of undernourishment – which had been declining for decades – has started…
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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What’s in a plant?
Tracking early human behaviour through plant processing and -exploitation.