Category Archives: Leiden University

Dr. Ling Shan received the Young Scientists Award 2020

The award recognizes Ling Shan’s research on the effects of opiate use on narcolepsy. Ling Shan is doing his LEaDing Fellowship at the Department of Neurology at the Leiden University Medical Center. His LEaDing Fellows project is about narcolepsy with cataplexy: systematic search for proof for the autoimmune attack. His research is not unnoticed. The…
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‘Like Don Quichot, you have to keep dreaming’

Interview held with Dr. Elena Sánchez López, posted at the Leiden University’s website. Elena is doing her LEaDing Fellowship at the Department of Human Genetics of the Leiden University Medical Center until end December 2020. The aim of her LEaDing Fellow’s project is to understand the mechanisms of polycystic kidney disease, a genetic disease which…
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LEaDing Fellows alumnus Gabriel Forn Cuni receives NWO XS grant

LEaDing Fellows alumnus Gabriel Forn Cuni receives NWO XS grant The project ‘targeted biomolecule production for therapeutic use’ of LEaDing Fellows alumnus Gabriel Forn Cuni (Leiden University, Institute for Biology) was awarded with a grant in the Open Competition Domain Science – XS NWO. This NWO category emphatically strives to encourage curiosity-driven and bold research…
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LEaDing Fellows postdocs: attracting international talent

In May-June 2020, some of the talents selected for the LEaDing Fellows programme have been interviewed for the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus magazine. Learn more about them and their projects in the following interviews. Interview with Dr. Matthew Dennis: Well-being in a Digital World Dr Matthew Dennis is part of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus affiliated Leading Fellows Postdoc programme. He…
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LEaDing Fellows lunch meetings

In early 2020, the LEaDing Fellows Programme Office organised three separate lunch meetings. During each lunch meeting, two fellows presented their research project. During these meetings all fellows had the opportunity to talk to a member of the LEaDing Fellows Steering Committee and there was ample room for networking. Lunch Fellow Meeting in Delft on…
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LEaDing Fellows postdocs: attracting international talent

How do you attract international scientific talent to South Holland? By offering an attractive program and working together. Leiden University, Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Leiden University Medical Center and Erasmus Medical Center have been doing just that for a number of years with the LEaDing Fellows postdoc program. LEaDing Fellows…
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3rd FELLOW MEETING 16 SEPTEMBER 2019

The 3rd LEaDing Fellow Meeting, for appointed fellows from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd call, took place on Monday 16 September 2019. The meeting was held in the beautiful venue Klein Auditorium of the Academy Building of Leiden University. The event was successful. More than 60 LEaDing fellows joined this ‘community building’ meeting. In the…
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LEaDing Fellow Bastian Ravesteijn awarded with a VENI grant

Bastian Ravesteijn is appointed in the LEaDing Fellows programme since 1 February 2019 at Erasmus University’s School of Economics. In July he is awarded with a VENI grant. The NWO Veni grant, of up to 250.000 euros, is awarded to excellent researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to conduct independent research and develop their…
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