Discover the future of healthcare at LUMC during the Open Day, from AI and stem cells to kids’ health and anatomy. Join hands-on activities, meet researchers and mascot KiK, and explore science up close for all ages!
Join fellow statisticians, researchers, and data enthusiasts for the upcoming Statisticians in the Park meeting! This gathering marks the revival of the Statisticians community for everyone who works with statistics and data analysis at Leiden Bio Science Park, a place to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and connect. Whether you work daily with statistics or have […]
This event will be held in dutch Every person constantly makes decisions about everyday things. But when it comes to choices around serious illness and the approaching end of life, the conversation becomes much more difficult for most. How do you proactively talk about treatment preferences, boundaries, maintaining control, or the desired place of death? […]
This PEPtalk will be in dutch Antibodies in the blood can protect us from disease, but sometimes they can also make us ill. These are called autoimmune diseases. At the LUMC, extensive research is being done in this field. For one of these diseases, MuSK myasthenia gravis, the disease mechanism has been unraveled. Researchers discovered […]
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebrovascular condition that begins about 20 years before symptoms appear. Ellis van Etten, a neurologist, researches how CAA works. She will explain the various clinical manifestations, the role of brain clearance and sleep, and how the immune system is involved. Additionally, she will discuss how iatrogenic CAA can develop […]
Symposium organized in honor of the retirement of the curator/conservator of Anatomical Museum LUMC The symposium re-enlightens the existential and unifying role of death in art and science. Particular attention will be paid to Vanitas and its relationship with science being revealed in the art of dissection and conservation, which allowed the extensive growth of […]
When Louise Brown was born in 1978 as the first IVF baby, the world was turned upside down. Creating a child in a test tube was unheard of. Now, almost 50 years later, IVF is a normal part of society. In the meantime, this field has not stood still. For example, Japanese researchers recently created […]
Our brains are a beautiful and complex organ. They are important for the control of our body and house our personality. When researching good medications for very rare brain disorders, researchers often use "brains in a petri dish". Are these brains in a petri dish really brains? Why do you we need these kinds of […]
Join us on November 20th, 16:00-17:00, at Leiden University for Dr. Julian März's lecture on public funding for individualized therapeutics.