Three Leiden chemists received a ZonMw grant for innovative research at the intersection of chemistry and medicine. Leiden plays a key role in this as a centre for interdisciplinary medical research.
LUMC researchers Bahareh Rajaei and Françoise Carlotti discovered a possible key to cell repair in type 1 diabetes. Their findings may contribute to a new therapy for damaged cells.
LUMC has deployed a mobile heart-lung machine on site for the first time. This first improves acute care for patients with severe heart or lung failure.
LUMC researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism that explains why some people do not develop type 1 diabetes. The finding offers new opportunities for more targeted diagnosis and treatment.
Leiden professor Meta Roestenberg receives the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus for her pioneering malaria vaccine. The prize will enable her team to further develop the research.
Researchers at Leiden University have discovered oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed. This finding indicates that galaxies could have developed much faster in the young universe than previously thought.