Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper, Prof.dr. P.H.A. Quax, Co-promotor: I. Bot

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: Theo Reijmers

Promotores: K.J. Batenburg, B. Koren

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance policy that uses the past, current, and prognosticated health condition of an asset to predict when timely maintenance should occur.

The rapidly increasing commercial application of metallic nanoparticles within products will inevitably enhance the amount of NPs being released into soil.

Op 17 november 2021 verdedigde Cyril-Igor Grigorieff het proefschrift 'The Regime for International Air Carrier Liability'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof.dr. V. Correia (University Paris Saclay).

Science is typically a patchwork of research contributions without much coordination. Especially in clinical trials, the follow-up studies that we do fail to be the most promising.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancer in males.

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

It is a common technique in global optimization with expensive black-box functions to learn a surrogate-model of the response function from past evaluations and use it to decide on the location of future evaluations.

The lipid membrane is a basic structural component of all living cells. Embedded in this nanometer-thin barrier, membrane proteins shape the membrane and at the same time respond to the shape of the membrane.

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

Salicylic acid (SA) is a plant hormone, which is involved in the defense responses to pathogens and to abiotic stress, and in the regulation of plant growth and development.

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Firearms and violence in Europe–A systematic review by Katharina Krüsselmann, Pauline Aarten, Marieke Liem

Door de vergrijzing neemt de druk op de ouderenzorg toe. Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat ouderen gezond en vitaal kunnen blijven leven? In het vak ‘Living Lab’ van de Master Vitality and Ageing (V&A) van het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) werken studenten aan actuele vraagstukken rond de gezondheid…

Prof dr. C.A. van Eck heeft de Descartes-Huygensprijs gekregen. Deze wordt eens in de drie jaar door de Franse Académie des Sciences en de KNAW toegekend aan een geesteswetenschapper. De prijs is gesponsord door de Franse Ambassade in Nederland en wordt toegekend aan Franse en Nederlandse onderzoekers…

Perzische verhalen met kunstige miniaturen, brieven op papyrus van Egyptische handelaren en medicinale handschriften die uit het Grieks zijn vertaald en in het Arabisch zijn bewerkt. Studium Generale organiseert een lezingenreeks rond de wereldberoemde handschriften uit de Midden-Oosten collectie van…

Anne van Rongen heeft tijdens de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst van het American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) in 2024 de Wayne A. Colburn Memorial Award in de wacht gesleept. Deze prijs wordt uitgereikt aan de beste posterpresentatie en is een mooie erkenning voor haar uitstekende onderzoek en pr…

De afdeling bereikte het droevige bericht dat hoogleraar burgerlijk recht prof. mr. A.R. Bloembergen op 1 november 2016 is overleden. Hij wordt met eerbied en dankbaarheid herdacht. Bloembergen was hoogleraar in Leiden van 1965 tot 1979.

Computers zijn in staat om ongelooflijk nauwkeurige voorspellingen te doen op basis van machine learning. Met andere woorden, deze computers kunnen zonder tussenkomst leren als ze eenmaal door mensen zijn voorgeprogrammeerd. Bij LIACS verkennen en verleggen we de grenzen van wat een revolutionaire nieuwe…

This new Casebook features the work of an international, interdisciplinary research group entitled ‘The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry’.

Sinds 2009 behaalden 91 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

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Een diversere groep studenten kun je je bijna niet voorstellen. India, Duitsland, Pakistan, Nederland, Israël, Rusland, Italië en Mongolië, allemaal voorbeelden van landen die dit voorjaar vertegenwoordigd zijn in de pilot van het International Leiden Leadership Programme.

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

CONSENT (Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy) is a research project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme. The question central to this research is whether recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed…

As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

In order to be able to develop effective medicine and treatments to prevent or cure autoimmune diseases or cancer we need to understand the mechanisms how they arise and what drives their course.Unravelling the fundamental molecular mechanisms influencing the onset and course of diseases such as allergies,…

Op 12 januari 2022 verdedigde Mirjam Franke het proefschrift 'Over de grens van de onrechtmatige daad'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.mr. A.G. Castermans en prof.mr. J.H. Crijns.

The coursework within the Science Communication and Society (SCS) specialisation prepares students for internships and a career in communication about science and health.

To get an idea of the science communication products and research that is possible, a few examples of student projects of recent years are shown below.

In this thesis an activity-based probe was discovered that could visualize the activity of PLAATs. With an optimized gel-based ABPP assay in hand, screening of a compound library led to the discovery of alpha-ketoamides as a hit for PLAAT3.

A difficulty of studies on chemical kinetics are the reaction time scales and detection of their intermediates.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar

Artin L-functions associated to continuous representations of the absolute Galois group G_K of a global field K capture a lot of information about G_K as well as arithmetic properties of K.

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

The intradermal administration route is attractive for vaccine delivery, because of the highly populated antigen-presenting cells in the skin. However, the skin’s main physical barrier, the stratum corneum, prevents vaccines from entering the skin.

Tuberculosis is a major global health problem caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, claiming more than a million lives annually.

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

The glycosylation reaction is a pivotal reaction in creating new and complex oligosaccharides.

Artificial photosynthesis has recognised potential to produce green and sustainable fuels from earth-abundant resources such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight.