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LION Image AwardsOn 15 January, the winner of the famed LION Image Award will be announced. Submissions ranged from the famous 3d printed microboat to an eerily abstra...
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Record number of PhDs despite coronavirusIn 2021 a record number of researchers obtained a PhD at Leiden University. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the number of PhDs conferred was 448, on...
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Felienne Hermans explains why you should talk to your computerWhy should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In th...
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How NeCEN helped develop the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccineThe Phase 3 clinical trial results of the promising Covid-19 vaccine of Johnson & Johnson are expected this month. The Dutch electron microscopy facil...
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Large plane tree moved to make room for Gorlaeus Building phase twoLeiden University is currently working on the new Gorlaeus Building, a sustainable modern building for the Faculty of Science. To make room for the ph...
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Work in the time of the coronavirus: ‘I miss the processions'How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? This is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series of articles. This time we...
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Zoom available for teaching from 22 January onFrom 22 January on, the video conferencing app Zoom will be available for students and teachers at Leiden University. The University is responding to ...
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2020 Hall of fameIn 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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‘My mother couldn’t attend my wedding due to corona measures’At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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IBL coordinates project to search for new medicines in marine biodiversityGilles van Wezel of the Institute of Biology Leiden will lead a European consortium to search for new medicines and disease-suppressive microbes while...
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Promising test in Peru: tackling climate change whilst reducing povertyWhat if we start taxing carbon-intensive products such as electricity and gasoline, and at the same time compensate low-income households? Hauke Ward ...
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IBL and LACDR researchers win chemistry prize for Lorentz workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Natural Product Drug DiscoveryDuring the opening ceremony of the (online) CHAINS conference on 8 December it was announced that the workshop 'Artificial Intelligence for Natural Pr...
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‘Our pirate image scares people off, but that’s exactly what we want’Controversial environmental organisation Sea Shepherd fights illegal fishing all around the world and is not afraid to take direct action. Alumnus Gee...
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It’s all about the cell wall for brand-new professor Dennis ClaessenDennis Claessen has been appointed professor of Molecular Microbiology at the Institute of Biology Leiden. With his teaching and research on the cell ...
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Five popular articles from 2020At the end of the year we always compile a list of our most interesting, most popular articles from that year. In the crazy year that was 2020 one top...