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  Roeland Merks Professor

  merksrmh@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277106

• Developing new therapies to fight muscle disease News - 26 September 2022

  Biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his collaborators are taking up the fight against muscular dystrophy: genetic disorders that cause muscle weakness. They want to inhibit the clumping of proteins that results in toxic aggregates. For this, the team receives 550,000 euros from Health Holland. The team…

• Valvular Heart Disease: Present, Progress, and Promise Event - 3 July 2026

  Inaugural lecture

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  Joey Zuijdervelt PhD candidate

  j.l.zuijdervelt@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276227

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  Jolanda Snel PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.h.snel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bram Slütter Associate Professor

  b.a.slutter@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276208

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  Irene Pascual Garcia PhD candidate

  i.pascual.garcia@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anika Altaf Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  a.altaf@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273376

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  Hans Aerts Professor emeritus

  j.m.f.g.aerts@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274771

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  Eveline Crone Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  ecrone@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• RARE-NL: LUMC joins consortium to find treatments for rare diseases News - 26 August 2024

  RARE-NL, a new collaboration between university hospitals, hopes to find treatments for rare diseases. Professor Teun van Gelder is representing the LUMC in the initiative.

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  Channeke Keuls Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.s.keuls@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tim Koppert Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.y.koppert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Advocating for gene therapies for rare diseases News - 25 October 2022

  ‘If we don’t start talking about this, who else will?’ This is what Arjan Lankester, paediatrician/immunologist at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Professor of Paediatrics, thought when it seemed that various extremely effective gene therapies for rare diseases would no longer be available…

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  Marit Ruitenberg Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.f.l.ruitenberg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Le Yang PhD candidate / contract

  l.yang@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Treatment before patients develop rheumatism provides lasting relief News - 22 July 2022

  Early treatment benefits patients who have not fully developed rheumatoid arthritis but are in the preliminary stages of the disease. This is what researchers from the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) have reported in The Lancet. Patients in the pre-arthritis stage who were temporarily prescribed…

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  Harriet Vermeer Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  vermeer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273491

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  Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de Lange Professor

  ecmdelange@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276330

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  Linda van Leijenhorst Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  lleijenhorst@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273750

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  Mi-lan Woudstra Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.j.woudstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275439

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  Willem Fibbe Professor

  w.e.fibbe@lumc.nl | 071 5262271

• Better treatment of systemic autoimmune diseases requires close collaboration News - 18 January 2024

  Exceptional collaboration between physicians is needed to better understand and treat autoimmune diseases that cause inflammation in various organ systems.

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  Martin Rücklin

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  Martijn Defilet PhD candidate

  m.p.defilet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rob van Wijk Assistant professor

  r.c.van.wijk@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274505

• On barriers and bridges: autoimmune rheumatic diseases and the road to a cure News - 19 June 2024

  Hans Ulrich Scherer is Professor of Rheumatology, in particular Translational Rheumatology. He wants to build bridges between research and clinical practice and between departments and organisations at home and abroad. Scherer will give his inaugural lecture next Friday. ‘To make progress, we have to…

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  David Ehrhardt Associate Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  d.w.l.ehrhardt@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009313

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  Camila Espinoza Chaparro Teacher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.p.espinoza.chaparro@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anar Ahmadov Associate Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  a.k.o.ahmadov@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009470

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  Katja Cardol Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.k.cardol@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275697

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  Jyothi Thrivikraman Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  j.k.thrivikraman@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 0800918

• LUMC: first Dutch patient receives CAR T-cell therapy for autoimmune disease News - 3 June 2025

  The LUMC has become the first institution in the Netherlands to treat a patient with an autoimmune disease using CAR T-cell therapy.

• Lifelong development

  Lifelong development at Leiden University: learn, develop, grow

• Teacher development

  The Faculty of Science believes it is important that you are stimulated, inspired and supported in your development as a teacher. In this section, you can find out more about the support and opportunities to work on your teaching skills.

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  Maia Casna Guest researcher

  m.casna@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Margo Dona Assistant professor

  m.a.dona@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Leiden interdisciplinary research opportunities in health and disease prevention News - 1 February 2023

  Are you a Leiden researcher looking for opportunities for interdisciplinary research and collaboration in the fields of local communities, health and disease prevention? If so, Health Campus The Hague is the right place for you. Take a look at these four examples of current research.

• Teacher development

  Leiden University considers good education to be of paramount importance. That is why we invest in our teachers’ professional development, to ensure that their teaching methods continue to match the needs of individual students.

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  Simone Dobbelaar Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.dobbelaar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• First quantum biosensor can detect rapid, invisible changes in cells News - 22 June 2026

  The laboratory of Leiden researcher Alireza Mashaghi is the first in the world to implement a quantum biosensor installation from QT-Sense. This enables the detection of extremely rapid and almost imperceptible changes in cells, providing essential insights for treating diseases.

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  Marinus van IJzendoorn

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  vanijzen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kiki Zanolie Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.k.k.zanolie@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273838

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  Barbara Gravendeel Associate professor guest

  b.gravendeel@hortus.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Tales Yamamoto Guest researcher

  t.m.yamamoto@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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• Talent and Development Platform Help, support and complains

  As of 6 October 2025, Leiden University has incorporated three key HR processes into a new platform: the Talent and Development Platform.

• Organisational Development programme

  Leiden University needs space to be able to innovate, and the Organisational Development programme is working on this.

• Learning and development

  University Leiden encourages its employees to use and develop their talents. We do this by supporting you in your career and in your personal and professional development. We try to ensure that you get the opportunity to realise your full potential.

• BEAT-COVID team discovers sugar-coated antibodies that predict disease progression News - 3 May 2022

  At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from 15 departments at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) realised they could do more for patients if they joined forces. This is how the BEAT-COVID group has been able to rapidly gain knowledge about COVID-19, the role of the immune system and…