2,801 search results for “cancer drug discovery initiative” in the Public website
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Leiden astronomers launch biggest space-ice database ever: ‘A kind of phone book, but for ice’
It is the largest database for space ice yet: The Leiden Ice Database for Astrochemistry: LIDA. Created by astrophysicists at the Leiden Observatory, LIDA includes not only hundreds of measurement data, but also software to examine astronomical observations and prepare new measurements with the James…
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How to address sensitive subjects in class?
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…
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Rapenburg - backdrop for art and knowledge
Street theatre, drama, poetry and a lot of science: Leiden's Rapenburg was the backdrop for the fifth Night of Art and Knowledge on Saturday 16 September. Many University buildings - from the Observatory to the Hortus - opened their doors to artists, scientists and a public curious to know more.
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Successful start of e-learning skills platform in Brightspace
For the first time, students were able to develop their skills using a digital platform in Brightspace. It turned out to be a success: on average students who actively used the platform on achieved higher grades than students who used it less. But above all, the students themselves were pleased with…
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Expanding Social Sciences & Humanities in African Global Health Discourse
LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.
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‘Looking back, this past year will be a very important period in my life’
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 doing in a time of working at home in a different culture, when travelling is not possible? Clinical pharmacologist Lu Chen is the third in this series to…
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Rising infections: how is the University responding?
The infection rate is rising again in the Netherlands, which means it may also be rising among Leiden University’s students and staff. How is the University responding? And what dilemmas is it facing? We spoke to our Rector Magnificus, Chief Security Officer and two other administrators.
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‘Science is international so our faculty should be too’
‘Our faculty is a very international community. And that is something everybody really benefit from,’ says Yun Tian. As the officer internationalisation, she is the bridge between international students and staff, the faculty and universities abroad. ‘Science goes beyond countries and carries no nationality.…
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Fundamental Research on the Voltammetry of Polycrystalline Gold
PhD defence
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On quantum transport in flat-band materials
PhD defence
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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Van Marum Colloquium: Making Kinetics at Surfaces a More Exact Science
Lecture
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Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?
Lecture
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Chinese Cinema Meets Digital Humanities
Lecture
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Planetary Atmospheres and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Lecture
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Regulation of autophagy-related mechanisms during bacterial infection
PhD defence
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Random Erasing
Lecture
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Women in Data Science (WiDS)
Conference
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“Mobile” Afterworlds in the Western Capital of the Liao Dynasty
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe with Observational Cosmology
Lecture
- Open Day 2018
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Online tools
This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. The websites linked down below are often times both available in Dutch and English.
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Learning Unkown Intervention Targets in Structural Causal Models
Lecture
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Global Impact in Health Symposium
Symposium | Leiden2022
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Developmental effects of polystyrene nanoparticles in the chicken embryo
PhD defence
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Detection of schistosome circulating antigens CCA and CAA
PhD defence
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Migraine biochemistry and visual snow
PhD defence
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LED3 Lecture: Harnessing the Chemistry of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Lecture
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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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Enya Seguin: ‘Healthcare in Africa could be so much better'
Enya Seguin is an idealist. This 22-year-old alumna of Leiden University College in The Hague wants to make it possible for patients in Africa to have access to doctors anywhere in the world via an app. She is not deterred by the many problems and pitfalls she meets along the way.
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LIC Guest Lecture: Controlling biological systems: From nanopore-forming toxins to a chemical-genetic system to map ZDHHC-specific S-acylation
Lecture
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CANCELLED: Book Presentation and Discussion: Central Asia 300-850 Roads and Kingdoms
Lecture
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Super-Earth Atmospheres
PhD defence
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Digging Deep in the Galilee: 10 Years of Excavations on a Hill with a View
Lecture
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Unravelling cell fate decisions through single cell methods and mathematical models
PhD defence
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Food stories and the microbiome
Workshop
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Van Marum Colloquium: CO2 Electrolysis Systems for Chemical and Food Production
Lecture
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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Lithium-ion batteries and the transition to electric vehicles
PhD defence
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Beyond the trenches
PhD defence
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Bringing the ‘credibility revolution’ to archaeological field research
Seminar
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Neutrino: Documentary & Q&A with the directors
Studium Generale
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To do a PhD or not to do a PhD? Speed date about it with alumni!
Career and apply for jobs
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Bioengineering and Biophysics of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
PhD defence
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Functions and biosynthesis of a tip-associated glycan in Streptomyces
PhD defence
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Prospects for law reform and democracy under Indonesia’s new president
VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?