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Looking back on an extraordinary Remembrance Day
This year’s Remembrance Day on 4 May was more intimate than ever. Although it was not possible to come together as usual, an online lecture by Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history, and a special ceremony at the Academy Building made it a moving remembrance after all. See the photos…
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this
Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD candidates begin by explaining their dissertation in words of one syllable. And it’s not just the PhD’s family and friends who appreciate this.
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The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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Dies Natalis: 'The big questions call for collaboration'
Universities cannot survive in this highly competitive world without collaboration. And the ultimate aim is to make the world a safer and more sustainable place. This was Rector Carel Stolker’s message during the 441st Dies Natalis.
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Dies Natalis Festival for Alumni: a birthday party for 700 guests
Workshops, tours, talks, music, an AI photobooth, interviews, a special poem and the launch of the LUF Children’s Fund. Alumni celebrated their alma mater’s 450th birthday in style on Saturday at the massively oversubscribed Dies Natalis Festival.
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University meets local entrepreneurs
It was a unique meeting at the Academy Building on 10 April. Around 200 local entrepreneurs came to a networking event hosted by Leiden City Centre Management and Leiden University.
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A real professor in the classroom
It’s starting to become a real Dies Natalis tradition: on 8 February professors from Leiden University teach a class at primary schools in the region. This introduces children to academia and teaches them more about conducting research. ‘Had you expected me to be a woman?’
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LUCRIS GSM
LUCRIS Graduate School Management (GSM) is a system for the registration of all formal steps regarding admission, progress, and graduation during the PhD track. LUCRIS GSM supports various approvals (by the supervisor (promotor), dean, and secretary) that occur during the PhD track. Some documents,…
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Former Rector Carel Stolker’s valedictory lecture buried according to tradition
After three years of covid postponements, the time had finally come on Wednesday 29 June 2022: Carel Stolker’s last speech as Rector Magnificus was buried according to tradition under the ginkgo tree in the library at the Kamerlingh Onnes building.
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Record number of PhDs despite coronavirus
In 2021 a record number of researchers obtained a PhD at Leiden University. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the number of PhDs conferred was 448, one more than the previous record year of 2018.
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Important findings in plain language: Leiden University introduces lay talk
PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. The Doctorate Board is pleased to have decided that as of 1 September, all Leiden PhD candidates will begin their PhD defence with a lay talk. ‘It can…
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Old tradition of ‘golden PhDs’ reinstated
Black-and-white photographs filled with solemn young men and distinguished professors line the walls of the Grand Auditorium. Young women are missing from the photos; women rarely obtained PhDs 50 years ago. And this article is about that group, the PhD candidates between 1966 and 1972, who were invited…
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Looking ahead to the next ten years at LDE anniversary celebration
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities strategic alliance celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022. At the ‘The Next Ten Years’ anniversary celebration in the Faculty Club on 12 April, the partners looked back on their achievements and ahead to the major social challenges of the next ten years.
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From Leiden Pilgrim to American president
Before founding their American colony, the Pilgrim Fathers first lived in Leiden in the early 17th century. This group has no fewer than nine American presidents among its descendants. The University played an important role in the Pilgrims’ life in Leiden.
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Festive Graduation Ceremony at the Institute of Public Administration in The Hague
On Thursday 31 October 2019 several graduation ceremonies for study programmes of the Institute of Public Administration were held. It was the first time these festivities took place at Campus The Hague.
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Finally signing the walls of the Sweat Room: 'That really is the finishing touch'
An online ceremony, no party and then no signature in the Sweat Room: during the pandemic, many graduation traditions could not take place. Now anyone who graduated in corona time may still come and sign their name.
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‘In the end, rector is just Latin for organiser’
On the day of the Dies Natalis, Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker starts his second term of office. How does he look back on the first four years, and what are his plans? These are the questions asked of him by Mayor Lenferink, student of public administation Mikal Tseggai, Professor Eveline Crone and…
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Exhibition 'Hora est!'
Exhibition
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Repurposing ubiquitination for innovative antibody conjugation
PhD defence
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Burden of disease and quality of life in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
PhD defence
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Question-Based Clinical Development of Vaccines to Address Global Health Priorities
PhD defence
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Reflection on everyday work to improve the quality of surgical care
PhD defence
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The role of Cardiac Autonomic Innervation in Cardiomyopathy-Related Arrhythmias
PhD defence
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Mechanisms of vaccines against viral infections
PhD defence
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Modeling vascular inflammation with immune cell-vessel crosstalk in hiPSC-derived 3D vessels-on-chip
PhD defence
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Pharmacological quest for gold: pursuing safer opioid analgesia
PhD defence
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Preclinical validation and mechanistic understanding of drug repurposing candidates for polycystic kidney disease
PhD defence
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Modeling the Genetic and Mechanical Interplay in Osteoarthritis
PhD defence
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Predicting time-to-event outcomes under different intervention strategies: methods and applications
PhD defence
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From Concept to Clinic: 3D-Printed Personalized Medication at the Point-of-Care
PhD defence
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An integrated approach to syncope in the context of transient loss of consciousness
PhD defence
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Navigating the future with chronic kidney disease. Towards patient- centred prognostic modelling in nephrology
PhD defence
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Molecular mechanisms of β-cell identity loss under cellular stress in diabetes
PhD defence
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The Repercussions of Recognition - T cells in the tumor microenvironment
PhD defence
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Improving efficacy and reducing adverse effects of immunosuppression after liver transplantation
PhD defence
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Determining the underlying aetiology in scar-related right ventricular tachycardia
PhD defence
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Gel-based drug delivery for safe and effective cancer immunotherapy
PhD defence
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Pandemic visits a doctor
PhD defence
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Informing precision medicine by incorporating molecular features in high-risk endometrial cancer
PhD defence
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Advanced Lipidomics Approaches in Arthritis Research
PhD defence
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Into terra incognita: towards improved care for adults with chronic nonbacterial osteitis (CNO)
PhD defence
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Tissue engineered models of the human heart
PhD defence
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Deciphering the Ubiquitin CODE by chemical tools
PhD defence
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Health, Disadvantage and the Welfare State
PhD defence
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Precision and efficacy guided novel approaches to target dyslipidemia
PhD defence
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Challenges in managing venous thromboembolism: Insights into cancer- and COVID-19-associated thrombosis
PhD defence
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Advancing host-directed therapy for Mycobacterium avium infection: identification of drug candidates and potential host targets
PhD defence
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Clinical features of GIST real-world setting
PhD defence