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‘The COVID-19 crisis just goes to show how things can go wrong’ |
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Ijeoma Uchegbu is Professor of Pharmacy at University College London (UCL). As a female scientist of colour, she was initially reluctant to play an active role in the university’s diversity policy. Until, that is, she had a radical change of heart: ‘I knew it; I had to become an evangelist.'
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire |
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Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. In this first in a series of discussions, Stolker talks to linguists Willemijn Heeren (Leiden University) and Tina Cambier (NFI and IND) on how linguists help fight crime.
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How NeCEN helped develop the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine |
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The Phase 3 clinical trial results of the promising Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are expected this month. The Dutch electron microscopy facility NeCEN helped develop the company’s vaccine, and have now published their findings in Nature Communications.
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Alumna Natacha Harlequin: ‘When it really matters, I’m a lion’ |
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She stands out for the moderate tone she takes in discussions on Dutch talk shows. Without judgement you can have an open conversation, criminal lawyer Natacha Harlequin learned in her student days in Leiden. ‘What I personally think of the alleged act doesn’t matter so much.’
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Laureates and appointments |
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