749 search results for “immune systems” in the Staff website
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors
Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have been awarded a Spinoza Prize and Judi Mesman a Stevin Prize. They received their prizes on 13 October.
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Hebben reumapatiënten met hulp van placebotechnieken minder medicatie nodig?
From painful joints to intense fatigue: a third of rheumatism patients suffer serious effects from this chronic condition and rely long-term on medication. Leiden psychologists are to receive a subsidy from the Netherlands Arthritis Foundation to investigate whether placebo techniques can help patients…
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ERC Starting Grants for five young Leiden researchers
Five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of on average 1.5m euros enables researchers who show potential to start their own project, lead a research team and implement their best ideas.
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Why good friends are essential for your health
Laughing, crying or even having a moan together: close friends are worth their weight in gold in good and bad times. Researcher Lisa Schreuders explains the effects on body and mind. Can we give that magical click a helping hand? And what advice does she have for first-years in their new city?
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Examining DNA molecules one by one: how combining techniques can help us understand diseases such as dementia
‘By cleverly combining new techniques for analysing DNA at the level of individual molecules, we can achieve real breakthroughs in research into conditions such as dementia,’ predicts Professor John van Noort. Together with four leading biophysics research groups, he has written a review article in…
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Combating antibiotic resistance together
Antibiotic resistance is a common problem among patients. The European Project TIPAT trains pharmacologists, microbiologists and immunologists of six universities in interdisciplinary thinking. The ultimate goal is to develop better treatment guidelines to combat resistance. Coen van Hasselt of the…
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Declining trust in government: the low-trust society
The Netherlands in September 2021 could be characterised as a low-trust society. Trust in the government has declined significantly in the past one-and-a-half years: from almost 70 percent in April 2020 to less than 30 percent in September 2021. There has also been a slight decrease in trust between…
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appointed professor of Computational Linguistics: 'If you know how systems work, you can better assess their limitations'
ChatGPT, translation machines and bots: for Carole Tiberius, they are a piece of cake. On 1 January, she was appointed professor of Computational Linguistics. 'There ae two elements to the field: computer science and linguistics.'
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to let Dutch government collapse, caused overburdening of judicial system and violation of children's rights in Germany
The Dutch conservative VVD party plans to make the right to family reunification more difficult for people with temporary residence permits. In Germany, this restriction led to several lawsuits which were won by status holders. Mark Klaassen, Assistant Professor in Migration Law, believes this is a…
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Scott Engels wins the Suzanne Hovinga Award 2022
During the LACDR Fall Symposium, Scott Engels received the Suzanne Hovinga Award for the ‘best master thesis’. Scott performed his RP1 research under the supervision of Dr. Amanda Foks and Virginia Smit in the Aging and Immunity group at the division of BioTherapeutics.
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Doctors discover a simple method to predict the risk of brain tumour recurrence
The risk of a brain tumour recurring can be predicted more accurately by counting the number of immune cells in the tumour under a microscope. These are the findings from research conducted by LUMC, Erasmus MC and Heidelberg University.
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Anthony BrownFaculty of Science
brown@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275884
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Miriam WaltzFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.h.a.waltz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Dita AuzinaFaculty of Archaeology
d.auzina@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Benedetto NeolaFaculty of Humanities
b.neola@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Adam BenferFaculty of Archaeology
a.k.benfer@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Chao DuFaculty of Science
c.du@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274947
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The unexplored functions of Toll-like receptor signaling: Immunometabolism, development and microbiome interactions
PhD defence
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Illuminating Host Defence against Mycobacterial Infection: Interactions with Autophagy and LC3-Associated Phagocytosis
PhD defence
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Koos van der HoevenFaculty of Medicine
j.j.m.van.der.hoeven@lumc.nl | 071 5269111
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Jaap Jan ZwagingaFaculty of Medicine
j.j.zwaginga@lumc.nl | 071 5269111
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Catherine MergenFaculty of Science
c.mergen@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276038
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Fijs van LeeuwenFaculty of Medicine
f.w.b.van_leeuwen@lumc.nl | 071 5269111
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Jan van LithFaculty of Medicine
j.m.m.van_lith@lumc.nl | 071 5262896
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Willem FibbeFaculty of Medicine
w.e.fibbe@lumc.nl | 071 5262271
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Bart van HoekFaculty of Medicine
b.van_hoek@lumc.nl | 071 5269111
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Amir ZadpoorFaculty of Medicine
a.a.zadpoor@tudelft.nl | 071 5269111
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Manfred WuhrerFaculty of Medicine
m.wuhrer@lumc.nl | 071 5269111
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Frank StaalFaculty of Medicine
f.j.t.staal@lumc.nl | 071 5263800
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Henricus VerspagetFaculty of Medicine
h.w.verspaget@umail.leidenuniv.nl |
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Marloes van Oosterhout
Faculty of Science
l.p.j.van.oosterhout@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271031
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Jort van der Laan
Faculty of Humanities
j.d.van.der.laan@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Marie DepuydtFaculty of Science
m.a.c.depuydt@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276051
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Breaking the Cycle of Heart Attacks
Lecture, Tuesday Talk
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Digits & Deviations of Dynamical Systems
PhD defence
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Subproduct Systems and C*-algebras
PhD defence
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Priyanshi Kalra
Faculty of Science
kalra@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275676
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Myrtille KoerselmanFaculty of Science
m.e.koerselman@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276270
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Stefan SemrauFaculty of Science
semrau@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275475
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Kostas Tassis
Faculty of Science
k.tassis@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276302
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Andisyah SekarFaculty of Science
a.p.sekar@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Leo Price
Faculty of Science
lsprice@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Huib Blok
Faculty of Science
blok@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275911
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Mazene Hochane
Faculty of Science
m.hochane@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Martijn Moné
Faculty of Science
m.j.mone@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276105
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Luca GiomiFaculty of Science
giomi@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275502
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Marjolijn LugthartFaculty of Science
m.j.l.lugthart@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276270
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Max Huisman
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Lionel NdambaFaculty of Science
ndamba@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271899
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Rachel DohertyFaculty of Science
doherty@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271115