Kidney transplantation is a major advance of modern medicine. This course will give you state of the art updates about what used to be an experimental, risky, and very limited treatment option more than 50 years ago and is now routinely performed in many countries worldwide.

Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotor: J.J. Boelens, R.G.M. Bredius

Drug induced organ toxicity is the main problem of the drug development and drug usage in the clinic. The liver and kidneys are the most sensitive organs towards drug induced toxicity.

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Transplantation of labial salivary glands to the eyelids for patients with dry eye appears to give excellent results clinically.

Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a group of acute diseases caused by highly infectious viruses including Ebola, Lassa, Dengue viruses. Its high mortality rate poses high risk to public health, however, studies on VHF have been hampered due to the non-availability of proper models and incomplete knowledge…

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death worldwide. The most important risk factor for developing this disease is high cholesterol levels in the blood.

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Chemical-induced organ toxicity is a major concern in the development and use of chemicals, including drugs, pesticides, industrial chemicals and cosmetics. In the last decades, the onset and progression of chemical-induced organ toxicity has been linked amongst others to perturbation of mitochondri…

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Promotor: R. Verpoorte, Co-promotores: Y.H.Choi, N.R. Mustafa

In this course, you will explore the organs involved in our food digestion and discover the common causes of abdominal and pelvic pain. The latest graphics and animations will give you new insights and understandings of this part of the body.

What is the mechanism of action preceding a physiological effects induced by metallic nanoparticles?

One of the major limitations in culturing complex tissues or organs is the lack of vascularization in the cultured tissue. Development of a functional capillary bed could overcome this problem.

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Integratie van MOOC in campus

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.A.L. Biessen, Prof.dr. T.J.C. van Berkel

Dissolving microneedles are a subgroup of microneedle types that completely dissolve within the skin. During this dissolving process the vaccine, stored in the needle matrix, is released into the skin.

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) constitutes a small subtype (~15%) of breast cancer, but causes the majority of breast cancer-related deaths.

Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. A. Bouwstra, Prof.dr. W. Jiskoot

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

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

There is concern about the threat that nanoplastics (NPs) may pose to both wildlife and humans. This thesis explores the mechanisms of toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs) in chicken embryo.

Met ingang van 1 april is Ewa Snaar-Jagalska benoemd tot hoogleraar Cellulaire tumorbiologie aan het Instituut voor Biologie, onderdeel van de Universiteit Leiden.

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De gratis online academische cursussen van de universiteit zijn voor iedereen over de hele wereld te volgen.

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This thesis presents the systematics, epidermal defense, and bioprospecting of wild orchids.

The study of orchid flowers, fruits, and inflorescences is crucial due to the remarkable diversity of orchid species and their unique adaptations to pollinators and seed dispersers. However, our understanding of the evolution and development of these organs within the orchid family remains limited.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Schilthuizen

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

The plant hormone auxin plays a central role in the growth and development of plants. Auxin acts in a concentration dependent manner and polar cell-to-cell transport of this hormone determines its distribution in the tissues of plants. This polar auxin transport is mediated by several families of auxin…

To gain more insight into the evolutionary development of orchid flowers and fruits, the orchid species Erycina pusilla was studied. The evolutionary origin of the median petaloid sepal, the callus on the labellum, and the stelidia was studied.

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Het LUMC staat voor de verbetering van de gezondheidszorg en de gezondheid van mensen. Deze missie brengen de medewerkers van het LUMC dagelijks in de praktijk met toonaangevend onderzoek, vernieuwend onderwijs en optimale, innovatieve zorg.

Farmacologe Jantine Brussee won op 4 oktober de tweede prijs in de Figon-Pfizer PHD Student competition tijdens de DUtch Medicine Days in Ede.

Sinds 2009 behaalden 84 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

De Universiteit Leiden biedt inmiddels bijna twintig Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) aan. Het maken en doceren in zo’n online cursus levert meer op dan enthousiaste cursisten, vertellen MOOC-docenten Marlies Reinders en Edwin Bakker. ‘Je brengt een wereldwijde community bijeen.’

Organ-on-chip technologie wordt ingezet bij geneesmiddelenonderzoek en op maat gemaakte behandelingen van patiënten. Kennisinstellingen en industrie verenigen hun krachten binnen het ‘Institute for human Organ and Disease Model Technologies’ (hDMT) dat 18 mei officieel van start is gegaan. Door faciliteiten,…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

De Leiden International (Bio)Medical Student Conference (LIMSC) trok dit jaar ruim 750 deelnemers van over de hele wereld. Naast het volgen van een wetenschappelijke programma konden deelnemers ook een kijkje nemen op verschillende afdelingen in het LUMC, of meedoen aan sociale activiteiten.

Bent u geïnteresseerd in taal? In de Leiden MOOC ‘Miracles of Language’, laat prof.dr. Marc van Oostendorp cursisten kennis maken met de veelzijdige studie van de talen van de wereld. Analyseer uw moedertaal en leer hoe uw taal lijkt op en verschilt van veel andere talen.

Het klinkt futuristisch, maar het kan toch: miniatuurorganen van patiënten maken en hierin bestuderen hoe ziektes zich ontwikkelen en behandeld kunnen worden. Dat willen onderzoekers van het LUMC, de Universiteit Twente (UT), UMCG, TU Delft en het Hubrecht Instituut de komende 10 jaar bereiken met een…