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• University flag travels to Mount Everest and back again News - 25 January 2021

  Leiden PhD candidate Mona Shahab climbed Mount Everest two years ago to raise money for the education of disadvantaged children in Egypt. She made it to the top and posed there with the University flag. She recently presented the flag to Rector Carel Stolker.

• ‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models News - 24 January 2025

  What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’

• Silver and light: a powerful combination with the potential to save lives News - 6 November 2024

  Packages of DNA strands containing silver, measuring just two or three nanometres in size. Leiden physicists Donny de Bruin and Dirk Bouwmeester create these packages, which can enter living cells on their own. They then activate the silver with light, causing the cells to break down. This could, in…

• Leiden technology research receives funding from NWO and businesses News - 9 July 2024

  A CT scanner to treat eye cancer, energy-efficient software for the future and a test to identify male chick eggs. Three projects by researchers from Leiden University are to receive funding from research funder NWO’s Open Technology programme, to which the business sector also contributes.

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  Emiel van der Hart Praktijkcoördinator

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  Charlene Kalle Associate Professor

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  Hubertus Irth Scientific Director / Professor of Biomolecular Analysis

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  Sita ter Haar Assistant professor

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  Hiske Heemskerk-Bavelaar Administrative staff member

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  Floris Velema Teaching Methodologist for Philosophy

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  Katy Lips Education staff member

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  Teun van Gelder Professor Clinical Pharmacology

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  Etienne Bourel Postdoc

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  Sophia van Ghesel Grothe Lecturer

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• A smarter way to search for antibiotics News - 16 June 2025

  Bacteria carry countless hidden treasures in their DNA: fragments that could hold the key to new medicines. But how do you pick out the most promising ones from millions of options? ‘Look at the switches that turn genes on and off,’ says molecular biologist Gilles van Wezel.

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  Peter ten Dijke Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, in particular signal transduction

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  Sjaak Neefjes Professor of Chemical immunology

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  Manfred Wuhrer Professor Proteomics and Glycomics

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  Jerry Braun Professor Cardiothoracic Surgery, in particular pulmonary surgery

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  Koos van der Hoeven Professor Internal Medicine, in particular the organisation of oncological care

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  Gregorius Luyten Professor Ophthalmology

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  Henri Versteeg Professor Internal Medicine

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  Bart van Hoek Professor emeritus Gastroenterology and Hepatology, in particular hepatology

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  Corrie Marijnen Professor (Clinical) Radiotherapy

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  Johanna Meijer Professor Neurophysiology, in particular the regulation mechanisms of biological rhythms

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  Fijs van Leeuwen Professor Radiology, Molecular imaging and image-guided therapy

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  Hein Putter Professor Longtudinal data analysis

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  Sylvia Le Dévédec Assistant Professor

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  Jos Jonkers Professor Molecular experimental ontogenetics and cancer therapeutics

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  Anita Liao Postdoc

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  Tessa Hagens PhD candidate

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  Pancras Hogendoorn Professor Pathology

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• Last chance: Free HPV vaccination without appointment at Plexus Announcement - 14 May 2024

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  Radhika Gupta Assistant professor

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  Cristina Grasseni Professor Cultural Anthropology

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  Nikkie Buskermolen PhD candidate / Guest

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• Joint solution for appointment of Vice-Rector of Organisational Development News - 17 May 2024

  A mediation meeting was held today between the University Council and the Executive Board about the appointment procedure for the Vice-Rector of Organisational Development, Erwin Muller. We have managed to resolve the dispute.

• Peter Grünwald develops a revolutionary statistical theory with an ERC Advanced Grant News - 11 April 2024

  Using mathematics to determine whether scientific results are significant or not. Peter Grünwald, full professor of Statistical Learning at the Mathematical Institute (MI) and senior researcher in the Machine Learning group of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant…

• How NeCEN helped develop the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine News - 11 January 2021

  The Phase 3 clinical trial results of the promising Covid-19 vaccine of Johnson & Johnson are expected this month. The Dutch electron microscopy facility NeCEN helped develop the company’s vaccine, and they have now published their scientific findings in Nature Communications.

• New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together News - 12 October 2023

  Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.

• Free HPV vaccination without appointment at Plexus returns Announcement - 10 November 2023

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  Diana Suhardiman Professor by Special Appointment Sustainability, diversity and inclusion

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  Jacqueline Hoornweg-Bos Director of teacher professional development in secondary education

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  Swargajyoti Gohain Guest researcher

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  Amit Kurien Guest researcher

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  Sander Hölsgens Assistant professor

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  Shelly Biesel Postdoc

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  Jelle Wouters Guest Researcher

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  Fien Steenbergen PhD candidate

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  Salwa Tareen Postdoc

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