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325 search results for “been cancer metastasis” in the Staff website

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  Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei Professor

  l.f.de_geus-oei@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

• Zebrafish against cancer Event - 6 June 2025

  Valedictory lecture

• 'There's nothing more we can do for you' - New publication on harmful communication in oncology News - 23 January 2024

  PhD student Janine Westendorp and her colleagues conducted literature research on what patients with cancer and their loved ones perceive as harmful communication from healthcare providers. The results were published in the journal Psycho-Oncology and are released as a poster to distribute to healthcare…

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  Erik Danen Professor

  e.danen@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274486

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  Anita Liao Postdoc

  c.liao@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Chemotherapy without side effects: Matthijs Hakkennes helps find the needle in the haystack faster News - 20 April 2026

  Chemotherapy, but without hair loss or extreme fatigue. It may be possible if the toxic drug only becomes active where it is ‘switched on’ by light. Matthijs Hakkennes has helped bring that idea closer to reality and obtained his PhD cum laude. ‘I received many thank-you emails from China and Bangla…

• Chemotherapy without side effects? It’s possible, with light News - 29 June 2023

  Nausea, neurologic pain and hair loss: some of the severe side effects of chemotherapy. Not necessary, biochemist Liyan Zhang showed. Together with Leiden biologists and others, she achieved great results with a drug that is only active in combination with light. Zhang will defend her PhD on 4 July.

• Interview Klara Beslmüller News - 20 December 2021

  Klara Beslmüller

• Nature Communications paper on therapeutic melanoma inhibition by local micelle-mediated cyclic nucleotide repression News - 15 October 2021

  Cancer immunotherapy represents a significant breakthrough in cancer treatment. However, tumors have numerous mechanisms by which they evade destruction by the immune system. It is therefore necessary to decipher and reverse these mechanisms in order to improve immunotherapies.

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  Arvid Mikkers PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.d.mikkers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271571

• Blueprints of Disease: Precision Platforms for Modelling Breast Cancer Event - 10 March 2026

  PhD defence

• Modeling and Targeting Tissue Dynamics in Fibrosis and Cancer Event - 17 April 2026

  PhD defence

• Data-driven approaches to study breast cancer metabolism Event - 19 May 2026

  PhD defence

• Acquired resistance in pancreatic cancer: characterization and exploration of actionable targets of a multifactorial disease Event - 27 January 2026

  PhD defence

• ‘Using real-world data to enhance our healthcare system’ News - 17 May 2022

  On 16 May 2022, Professor Michel Wouters from the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), will deliver his inaugural lecture titled ‘Quality of Cancer Care: why the real world matters’. Wouters will use the opportunity to describe how quality registries…

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  Rick Haas Professor by special appointment

  r.l.m.haas@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Eveline Bleiker Professor by special appointment

  e.m.a.bleiker@lumc.nl | 071 5268033

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  John Haanen Professor

  j.b.a.g.haanen@lumc.nl | 071 5263057

• From discovery to business: 'In the lab, we often don't realise that we are working to help an immense number of patients' News - 6 October 2022

  'It gave our team a big boost to hear that our work was valuable,' says medical chemist Elmer Maurits about the moment they won the Venture Challenge. With their company Iprotics, they want to develop a drug that can better treat patients with autoimmune diseases and blood cancers. 25,000 euros of prize…

• Life after the Grand Jamboree: Wrapping-up iGEM News - 10 November 2022

  ‘A challenging rollercoaster, but also a very bonding and insightful experience,’ that’s how the team of iGEM Leiden 2022 wraps up their participation in the iGEM contest. The contest for synthetic biology climaxed during the Grand Jamboree in Paris. The team ended up in the top 10 of over 360 teams…

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  Maarten Vermeer Professor

  m.h.vermeer@lumc.nl | 071 5261952

• Discover Leiden in a unique way during the Urban Trail Announcement - 3 June 2026

• Grants for fundamental research in Leiden News - 18 December 2024

  Three fundamental research projects at Leiden in physics, chemistry and medical science have received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They involve research on magnetic fields in the universe, the role of myeloid cells in cancer immunotherapy and the evolution of ancient proteins.

• Leiden University honours Lex van der Eb with University Medal News - 13 December 2024

  Leiden University has awarded its prestigious University Medal to Emeritus Professor Lex van der Eb. As a pioneer in genetics and molecular biology, he received this honour for his services to science and his key role in the development of the Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP).

• This is the library you did not know you had been looking for News - 23 July 2024

  2,240 plant extracts from 1,299 different plant species of Dutch origin. That’s the collection of the Dutch Extract Library, which has recently been transferred to the Institute of Biology Leiden. To plant biologist and contact person for this library Pingtao Ding this is a true treasury. ‘To bring…

• How bacteria survive with almost no oxygen News - 28 May 2026

  Researchers in Leiden have, for the first time, observed how a specialised enzyme helps bacteria stay alinve when oxygen levels are low, and how that process can be blocked. The discovery opens up new possibilities for targeted antibiotics.

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  Daisy Batenburg PhD candidate

  d.batenburg@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kim Elbertse PhD candidate

  k.elbertse@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Elsa Neubert Assistant professor

  e.neubert@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jeroen Jansen Professor

  j.c.jansen@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Andraniek Evadgian PhD candidate

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  Alfred Vertegaal Professor

  a.c.o.vertegaal@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Marcel Tijsterman Professor

  m.tijsterman@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Ferry Ossendorp Professor emeritus

  f.a.ossendorp@lumc.nl | 071 5263800

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  Christi van Asperen Professor

  c.j.van_asperen@lumc.nl | 071 5266090

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  Peter Devilee Professor

  p.devilee@lumc.nl | 071 5269510

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  Annaloes Fokkelman-Klip Research Analyst

  j.e.fokkelman@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274496

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  Kirsten Veltman Postdoc

  c.h.j.veltman@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xiaobing Zhang PhD candidate

  x.zhang@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lukas Wijaya Postdoc

  l.s.wijaya@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275706

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  Sabine de Winter PhD Candidate

  s.de.winter@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Michiel van de Sande Professor

  m.a.j.van_de_sande@lumc.nl | 071 5263606

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  Linglu Xu PhD candidate (contract)

  l.xu@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276039

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  Britt Duijndam PhD candidate

  b.h.a.duijndam@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lucy Sinke Postdoc

  l.j.sinke@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276039

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  Mick van Schaick PhD candidate

  m.van.schaick@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gerard Mulder Professor emeritus

  g.mulder@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Arnoud Sonnenberg Professor emeritus

  a.sonnenberg@nki.nl | 071 5272727

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  Natasha Tahir PhD candidate

  n.tahir@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275919

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  Michiel van Dijk PhD candidate

  m.van.dijk@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274496