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Why take your PhD at Leiden University?
Reasons to take your PhD at Leiden University.
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Please note: The beadle has moved
The office of the beadle has moved to the Academiegebouw.
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Lectures, debates, expositions, orations, doctoral degrees congresses & symposia
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Studying and obtaining your PhD with the excellent student programme
Rob de Lind van Wijngaarden is still a junior doctor, yet he has almost completed his PhD. He is the first PhD candidate from LUMC's excellent student programme whereby students can conduct PhD research during the bachelor's phase.
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‘Social support for dialysis patients not always effective'
‘There is a clear relation between how a kidney patient experiences his or her health, and mortality,' says Melissa Thong, who will obtain her PhD on Thursday. 'Patients who experience their health as 'poor', 'reasonable' or 'good' have a higher death rate than those who rate their health as 'excellent' or 'very good'.
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