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  19 April 2021
 
 
Skin injection could mean lower dose of Covid vaccine
 
In the current COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the vaccine is injected into muscle tissue, but a smaller amount of vaccine injected in the skin might also provide good protection. The #wakeuptocorona crowdfunding campaign is enabling Anna Roukens (LUMC) to research vaccination delivery via the skin.
 
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Queen Máxima pays a virtual visit
 
Students from ‘StudentinzetopSchool’ help schoolchildren and gain valuable teaching experience at the same time. In an online visit on 13 April, Queen Máxima spoke to pupils, students and teaching staff.
 
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LUMC to administer first Dutch stem cell gene therapy to patients
 
Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) will administer the first Dutch stem cell gene therapy to patients. The therapy will be used to treat children with SCID, a rare disorder where people are born without essential immune cells.
 
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The secret life of the sea sponge
 
It can live for  two thousand years, be two or three metres tall and produce antibiotics. PhD candidate Lina Bayona Maldonado studied the wonderful world of the giant barrel sponge.
 
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Water's journey from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds
 
Professor Ewine van Dishoeck and an international team of colleagues have written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory.
 
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New technology could prevent the mass cull of male chicks
 
Every year 6.5 billion male chicks are killed worldwide because they are of no economic value. In Ovo's technology can determine the sex of a chick, so that only female chicks are hatched. 
 
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More news
 
 
 
 
› Rector Hester Bijl on education in times of corona: ‘We have high hopes, but we have to be realistic'
 
 
 
› Three projects with Leiden researchers receive funding from National Growth Fund
 
 
 
› Survey: Leiden students want to learn more about sustainability in their studies
 
 
 
› Crowdfunding for children’s programming language Hedy
 
 
 
› Student Cabinet presents ‘coalition agreement’
 
 
 
 
 
 
Did you study in Leiden? Did you know we have a special monthly International Alumni Newsletter? With interviews with international alumni, university news and invitations for (online or live) alumni meetings all over the world?
 
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View from abroad
 
 
› Alumna Tiziana Lippiello, rector of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
 
 
 
 
International students
 
 
› Gradual return to in-person teaching expected from 26 April, looking ahead to the new academic year
 
› Are you or will you soon be a second-year master’s student? Apply for the Joint Interdisciplinary Project
 
› Have dinner with a fellow student
 
› Check our regular coronavirus updates
 
 
 
 
International staff
 
 
› Update 15 April: gradual return to in-person teaching expected from 26 April; looking ahead to the new academic year
 
› Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier Seminars on Reproducible Research
 
› Healthy University Leiden reveals interim results of Ommetje walking challenge
 
› Check our regular coronavirus updates
 
 
 
 
Coming online events
 
 
› 22 April: Lecture Translation Café 22 April: Machine Translation Literacy
 
› 23 April: Roméo Dallaire on How a better world is possible
 
› 29 April: Parisian architects, designers and craftsmen and the neoclassical interior
 
› All coming events
 
 
 
 
Laureates
 
 
› Bart Barendregt receives Vici grant
 
› Nadia Soudzilovskaia wins prestigious German research prize
 
› Ludo Waltman awarded the Derek de Solla Price Medal
 
› More awards
 
 
 
 
Books
 
 
› Helena Vrabec’s new book on Data subject rights
 
› Between the Headphones: Listening to the Practitioner
 
› More books
 
 
 
 
Leiden blogs
 
 
› Art History Blog: Lockdown letters
 
› Leiden Law Blog: Vaccine sovereignty and international law
 
› All blogs