955 search results for “party 1841 1990 disease women” in the Staff website
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Coen van Hasselt
Science
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Jordy van der Beek
Science
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Joey Zuijdervelt
Science
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ERC-grant for Sebastian Pomplun to cure disease by controlling gene expression with synthetic transcription factors
Sebastian Pomplun receives an ERC starting grant of 1.85 million Euros in five years. He wants to develop synthetic transcription factors that can enter cells and activate or deactivate specific genes. For example to disrupt cancer-related processes or to trigger the production of an important missing…
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Additional personal data required for taxed payments to third parties (IB-47)
Organisation
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Faculty beach party 2022: Beach clean-up and Robinson Experience (and no rain!)
In the end, the weather gods were on our side so that all outdoor activities at the faculty beach party could go ahead as planned.
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Graduation ceremony of the Cyber Security master: A digital party
With a trip through the Netherlands, the preparations for the graduation of the Master Cyber Security had already started weeks ago. The apotheosis took place on Thursday, the 11th of February. A report of a digital graduation ceremony.
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Heitman has been nominated for the TOPX “Guiding Star” award (award for women in the Life Sciences)
One of our RISE members, Prof. Laura Heitman, has been nominated for the TOPX Females to Follow “Guiding Star” award. TOPX empowers promising and ambitious women, and aims to honour inspirational females with remarkable careers in Life Sciences. TOPX selected her (and 7 other female professionals) because…
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Building, Tuesday Talks (special edition) and a spectacular Opening Party
Organisation
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Frits Rosendaal
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Annemarie Meijer
Science
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GreenLeft party calls for study on dual role of tax scholars
Too often, tax scholars have a dual role: advising the government on legislation, while at the same time helping companies to pay as little tax as possible. This needs to change according to Bart Snels, a member of parliament for Dutch GreenLeft party.
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maternal mortality in the Netherlands halved in recent years
The number of women in the Netherlands dying before, during or after childbirth has halved.
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Treatment before patients develop rheumatism provides lasting relief
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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politicians have a more international orientation than traditional parties’
Nationalism is so prevalent in our society that we hardly realise it once didn’t exist. In his new book, senior university lecturer Eric Storm reveals the global history of the phenomenon. ‘Nationalist movements have always influenced each other.’
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Rapporteur visits Leiden: ‘Suspend the supply of arms to the warring parties’
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the scope of International Human Rights Day.
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Transdiasporas: Armenians, Kurds, and Palestinians, 1990-2020
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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A quick call with Nadine Akkerman about the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture: ‘I feel a connection with Annie’
Each year on or around International Women’s Day, the university hosts the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture. You are welcome to attend − even if you wouldn't call yourself a feminist, says professor and organiser Nadine Akkerman. ‘You get the best discussions with a diverse audience.’
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Women Issuing Fatwas
PhD defence
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International Women’s Day
Event
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Inexhaustible source of human heart muscle cells allows strong reduction of animal testing
Researchers at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) have managed to culture human heart muscle cells on a massive scale. This is an exceptional achievement because it is very difficult to replicate heart muscle cells outside the body. Using a special technique, the researchers have now created…
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Petr Kopecky
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Symposium Women's Rights
Symposium
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Innovative Leiden research receives NWO grant
On January 24 Professor Annemarie Meijer and Dr Sander Wezenberg received a NWO grant for their research. The grant was awarded within the Open Competition Domaine Science-M programme and is intended for innovative research areas that can form the basis for the research themes of the future.
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Joana Cook
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Paul Hooykaas
Science
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Herman Spaink
Science
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Veronique de Gucht
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Women in Data Science (WiDS)
Conference
- IBL Spotlight - Development & Disease
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Biological agents
Biological agents are micro-organisms such as bacteria, parasites, moulds, viruses and their waste products. This category also includes genetically modified variants (GMOs). These agents may form a risk for your health, which is why we apply a number of legal and other guidelines to prevent people…
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Opening party
Festival
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How these young researchers are preparing for their first scientific conference
Three Psychology students will present a poster of their thesis research on Alzheimer’s and dementia at the international conference AAIC Neuroscience Next. ‘I remind myself to recognise - without fear or shame - when I don't know something.’
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Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Investigating inflammation: new leads for treating atherosclerosis
How do you detect people at high risk of heart attacks and strokes? And how can we improve the treatment of atherosclerosis? These are the questions that keep LACDR researcher Marie Depuydt busy. She is investigating the immune cells that contribute to the worsening of atherosclerosis. ‘It's a challenging…
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Osteoarchaeologist Maia Casna interviewed on a podcast
PhD candidate Maia Casna was a guest on the new episode of the Wetenschappelijke Wezens podcast. In it, Maia discusses her research on urbanisation and respiratory diseases while uncovering the intricacies of studying the human past and bones.
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IBL Spotlight - Development and Disease
Lecture
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Alice & Eve 2024: women in computing
Conference
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Chilean Transition to Democracy, from 1990 to 2022 Plebiscite: Recent Historical Analysis in Comparative Perspective
Lecture, MAIR Seminar
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Frank Schaftenaar
Science
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International Women's Day 2023 @ Wijnhaven
Conference
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Revolutionizing plant protection strategies: Ding lab receives 2.4M grant to investigate plant immunity
Plant biologist Pingtao Ding, assistant professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), has received a 2.4 million European grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers allows him to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which plants resist…
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Summer Cocktail Party
Party
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
- Beach party FDR 2023
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abortusstrijd. Leidse vrouwen en de Nederlandse vrouwenbeweging van 1860 tot 1990.
PhD defence
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with your fellow students and lecturers? Then sign up for the FSW-party!
Social
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New insights into mycobacterial infections with NWO grant
Why are mycobacteria such successful pathogens? And are there defence mechanisms in the body that help reduce an infection? To find out, Annemarie Meijer has been awarded the NWO Open Competition ENW-XL grant. She will not explore this quest alone. Five other leading Dutch research groups are participating…