From refugees to expats: Dr Dennis helps them all

Patients who can’t afford medicine. Refugees who need help. Expats who are ill. All alongside research into obesity. Having trained as a doctor, Dennis Mook-Kanamori chose the hard reality of life as a GP together with a job as a researcher at the LUMC.

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Together we can make the canals plastic free! 

Help us spot and clean up the plastic in the canals of Leiden! Leiden University is calling on the good folk of Leiden to help our researchers study the plastic in the city’s canals. And if you’d like our canals (ánd our seas) to be plastic-free, why not donate towards a fleet of canoes to clean them up?

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Niko Tinbergen Lecture:
Stem cells, Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?

Stem cells bring great promise, but are also at the basis of cancer. Highly regarded stem cell professor Hans Clevers will deli-
ver this lecture on Tuesday 10 December. 
Join us for this great evening full of science!

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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?

Papuan ancestor statuettes, antique dag-gers belonging to Indonesian sultans, Egyptian mummies... Museums and col-lectors from all around the world possess artefacts that are now the subject of discussion. Were these acquisitions above board? Professor Ter Keurs calls for more research into the history of collections and provides a few telling examples.

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