212 zoekresultaten voor “immune system” in de Medewerkerswebsite
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What makes us ill?
Genes predict whether you have a propensity for an illness but environmental factors often have the last word: nutrition, air pollution, lifestyle, stress. The exposome as both culprit and chance. Large-scale research is being carried out into this at Leiden. Thomas Hankemeier, Professor of Analytical…
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Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers
Ten Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant, of up to 280,000 euros, will enable them to elaborate their ideas over a period of three years.
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How NeCEN helped develop the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine
The Phase 3 clinical trial results of the promising Covid-19 vaccine of Johnson & Johnson are expected this month. The Dutch electron microscopy facility NeCEN helped develop the company’s vaccine, and they have now published their scientific findings in Nature Communications.
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Curing diseases with lab-grown organs
Organs and tissues grown in the lab may in the future be able to cure people with organ failures. Micha Drukker, professor of Stem Cells, Developmental Biology and Technology for Innovative Drug Research, is convinced that the use of stem cells will make this possible. He will deliver his inaugural…
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Scott Engels wins the Suzanne Hovinga Award 2022
During the LACDR Fall Symposium, Scott Engels received the Suzanne Hovinga Award for the ‘best master thesis’. Scott performed his RP1 research under the supervision of Dr. Amanda Foks and Virginia Smit in the Aging and Immunity group at the division of BioTherapeutics.
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Disability Support System workshop
Lezing, workshop
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth company to be given the green light by the European Medicines Agency. As Lead of the Janssen Campus in the Netherlands, Biology alumnus Bart van Zijll Langhout…
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Indigenous Peoples and Regional Human Rights Systems
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- Webinar: Home News Building land tenure systems
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The Function of Toll-like receptor 2 in Infection and Inflammation
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Leiden Law Cast: BONJO & an ex-prisoner
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Measures and Matching for Number Systems
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Maria Berghuis in EditieNL about PhD thesis: 'Prison visits are form of social control'
Prisoners who have little or no contact with the outside world are more prone to reoffend. What makes visits so important?
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Declining trust in government: the low-trust society
The Netherlands in September 2021 could be characterised as a low-trust society. Trust in the government has declined significantly in the past one-and-a-half years: from almost 70 percent in April 2020 to less than 30 percent in September 2021. There has also been a slight decrease in trust between…
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors
Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have been awarded a Spinoza Prize and Judi Mesman a Stevin Prize. They received their prizes on 13 October.
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Combating antibiotic resistance together
Antibiotic resistance is a common problem among patients. The European Project TIPAT trains pharmacologists, microbiologists and immunologists of six universities in interdisciplinary thinking. The ultimate goal is to develop better treatment guidelines to combat resistance. Coen van Hasselt of the…
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The Dutch crisis management system: learning from practice
Lezing
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Learning from Ancient Water Systems
Lezing
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PhD research: 'Visits to prisoners reduces risk of reoffending'
Prisoners who are visited regularly by family or friends are less likely to be reconvicted in the short term than inmates who rarely or never receive visits. Visits should therefore be encouraged and facilitated, according to PhD candidate Maria Berghuis, who will defend her doctoral thesis on 23 June…
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Finding planets outside our solar system with radio astronomy
Lezing, This Week's Discoveries
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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Nano-scale Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
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Systemic Accountability of the European Border and Coast Guard
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Quantitative systems pharmacology modeling of biotherapeutics in oncology
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Anisotropy, multivalency and flexibility-induced effects in colloidal systems
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Liposomes as delivery system for allergen-specific immunotherapy
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Morphodynamic equilibria in tidal inlet systems: sensitivity to geometrical variations
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The role and analysis of molecular systems in electrocatalysis
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Statistical physics and information theory for systems with local constraints
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Optimizing placebo effects in medical contexts: Utilizing learning theories and exploring communication strategies
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- COVID to GOFIT Week
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Silicon pore optics for high-energy optical systems
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drinks - Mobilizing the Dutch climate research community to accelerate system transitions
Lezing
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PhD student, to identify and characterize inhibitors of carbohydrate modifying enzymes to generate a new type of anti-viral molecule
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)
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Research Technician – tumor cell biology
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)
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How can criminal law protect democracy?
Should criminal law have a greater role in protecting this democracy? In his inaugural lecture, Professor Jeroen ten Voorde urges caution.
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Leiden researchers join forces against tuberculosis
About one and a half million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis. For thirty years, therapy with antibiotics has been the same, while it takes far too long and can lead to resistant pathogens. Leiden researchers from four institutes are now joining forces to develop more effective and efficient…
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Sabine van der Asdonk wins Gratama Science Prize 2021
For her research into complex family problems, an assistant professor in Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies Sabine van der Asdonk has won the Gratama Science Prize 2021, a prize for talented young researchers from the universities of Leiden and Groningen. The jury praised Van der Asdonk’s excellent…
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How drugs work better when encapsulated in nanoparticles
Chemist Tobias Bauer discovered ways to improve drugs by encapsulating them. Packages with iron nanoparticles, for example, can stimulate immune cells. Bauer will receive his PhD on 9 June.
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ISGA Research Seminar: 'The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security'
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Young suns and infant planets: Probing the origins of solar systems
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WARN-D: Your personal code yellow - orange - red
Imagine getting a notification on your mobile phone with your personal code for impending mental health problems or even depression: yellow, orange, or red. Science fiction? Not for scientist Eiko Fried. 'There is a real chance we can prevent some mental health problems before they occur.' Want to participate…
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Lipid model membrane systems as a tool for unraveling the underlying factors for skin barrier dysfunction
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System-level Design For Efficient Execution of CNNs at the Edge
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Investigating the strange metal phase in cuprates and heavy fermion systems
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Developing metabolomics for a systems biology approach to understand Parkinson's disease
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Measuring Sustainability: An Elaboration and Application of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Indonesia
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Protostellar jets and planet-forming disks: Witnessing the formation of Solar System analogues with interferometry
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From #COVID to #GOFIT
How do you get fit after these challenging times? How do you actively start a healthy lifestyle? Healthy University Leiden would like to address these topics during the upcoming from #COVID to #GOFIT Week, which will take place from 21 to 25 June 2021.
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Research project into environmental tipping points receives €10 million
Arjen Doelman (Leiden University), Max Rietkerk (Utrecht University), Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Isla Myers-Smith (University of Edinburgh) received an ERC Synergy grant of 10 million euros with their RESILIENCE project. The researchers will investigate whether and how tipping…