This Summer, Noel de Miranda (Dept. Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center) visited the bioinformatics group of Prof. Zlatko Trajanoski at Medical University of Innsbruck for 3 months. LUMC provided an Eurolife Scholarship of 7.500 euro to support this scientific collaboration. […]
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Dr Kurakula’s experience – Short-term Eurolife Research Exchanges – 2nd round
Konda Babu Kurakula, PhD – junior scientist at LUMC- shares his experience of visiting a research laboratory at University of Barcelona. Project title: Isolation and culturing endothelial cells from pulmonary arterial hypertension patients Home institution: Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Department of Molecular Cell Biology Hosting institution: University of Barcelona. Department of Medicine – Hospital […]
Eurolife Summer School 2018
The “Molecular Mechanisms in Cancer – Translating Discoveries into Personalised Therapies” Eurolife Summer School lasts one week and will be held in Leiden (The Netherlands) from 9th to 13th July 2018. Cancer is one of the most common causes of death around the world; one out of every eight of all deaths is due to cancer. Cancer arises when cells acquire gene mutations that induce uncontrolled cell growth often resulting in invasion into other tissues. Standard chemo- and radio therapy are aimed at killing the rapidly proliferating cancer cells. However, these therapies can be ineffective and have effects on normal cells that cause serious side effects […]
Education for international students at LUMC
Are you looking for a study period abroad? Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands) recently published an overview of all its courses that are open to international students: https://www.lumc.nl/onderwijs/international-students/home/ Several courses of the bachelor’s programs Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are taught in English and we have places available for international students. LUMC also offers electives […]
LEaDing Fellows Postdocs Programme: second call is now open
The “LEaDing Fellows Postdoc Programme” is a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND programme and will provide 90 researchers from all over the world who recently obtained a PhD, with the opportunity to gain two years of work experience in The Netherlands. These positions are available in the challenging, internationally acclaimed and multidisciplinary environment offered by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) […]