In the LUMC, every 2nd Tuesday of the month, at 12.00 o’clock, a walk-in session will be held to help PhD candidates with the Converis Graduate School module. The Graduate School office will provide tips & tricks and answer any questions regarding PhD milestones and practical issues. The first session will be held on April 11th, 2023.
Walk-in sessions will also be held for Primary Thesis advisors – these will be held on the last Thursday once every quarter, also [...]
This Wednesday the 15th of March, Martijn Nagtegaal received his PhD title with honors (cum laude). The defense took place at the Senaatszaal of the Technical University (TU) Delft. His PhD project was part of the Medical Delta collaboration Diagnostics 3.0: Dementia and Stroke, with shared supervision from TU Delft, Erasmus MC and LUMC (Jeroen de Bresser and Thijs van Osch).
A new group of students from the Master’s Vitality & Ageing have received their diploma in the Academic Building of the University of Leiden. This Master’s prepares students for an important role in improving the future of our care. The program can be followed in one fulltime year. However, since 2021, there is also the option to do it in two part-time years and thus combine it with a professional career or second Master’s. The unique, future-focused and interdisciplinary Master’s [...]
Kaare Christensen, Danish epidemiologist and biostatistician at the University of Southern Denmark, visited the group of Molecular Epidemiology to discuss collaboration within the ZonMW Open Competition project investigating the socio-genetic pathways of human ageing rate and longevity. The research group of this project headed by Eline Slagboom including Niels van Berg, Pasquale Putter, Mar Rodriguez-Girondo and Marian Beekman discussed potential research questions that can be answered especially by the group of Kaare Christensen in Odense by the use [...]
On January 25th 2023, Nicolien van Vliet defended her PhD thesis entitled “Is thyroid status a common denominator of age-related disease?” and received her PhD with honors (cum laude). Congratulations Nicolien and team!
Sigurdur Sigurdsson has been awarded a PhD doctorate on his extensive work on the AGES-Reykjavik study (Age/Gene-Environmental Susceptibility). This population-based longitudinal study followed a community cohort of Icelandic participants collecting multiple phenotypes including sampling of genetic material, blood chemistry, cognitive test batteries and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This work from Sigurdur and many others, including Leiden radiologists that contributed to the MRI sampling methods especially, has generated some landmark studies on risk factors and protective factors of cardiovascular- [...]
Top: The ultra high-field 7 Tesla MRI scanner at the LUMC is used in the study — Credits C.J. Gorter MRI Center
A new study on brain imaging by LEGend researchers, the WHIMAS study, has recently started data collection from memory clinic patients at the LUMC. The aim is to study novel cerebrovascular correlates of cognitive impairment and dementia on brain scans.
Dementia is a severe multifactorial, age-related disease resulting in memory loss and cognitive decline. It is often associated [...]
The University Network for the Care Sector South-Holland (UNC-ZH) has a new website, which is currently operational, but still under construction. For now it is only in Dutch, but the English webpages will follow soon. We will keep you posted regarding our latests research on elderly care via:
When we sleep poorly, we immediately realize how much it affects our mood. But research suggests that poor sleep is also linked to biological changes in our gut health.
The systematic review recently published thoroughly analyzed all trials and studies associating certain bacterial profiles with poor sleep. In essence, poor sleep is associated with an inflammatory bacterial profile. Given the interest in naturally-occurring muscle mass loss due to ageing – termed sarcopenia -, mechanism through which these inflammatory gut bacteria [...]
November 15 the Medical Delta Conference 2022 took place entitled: Technology: THE Gamechanger for Health. This conference was held at the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden, Europa’s ‘City of Science 2022’. At this event 8 female professors became Medical Delta Hoogleraar among which LEGends chair prof. dr. Eline Slagboom who has now a dual position at LUMC and TU Delft.
In her ageing research Read