Issues in today’s society rarely fall within the scope of a single discipline. This makes it important for researchers to look beyond the boundaries of their own field when they are seeking solutions. The Snouck Hurgronje Grant for interfaculty and socially relevant projects was established to encourage this.

University lecturer in criminology and research fellow Dr Joni Reef can make a start on her research on family-focused work in criminal sentencing. She has been awarded a subsidy of €24,000 from the partnership between the LUF and the Gratama Foundation.

Once a year the LUF Committee for Academic Expenditure (CWB) awards grants to scientific projects of Leiden University researchers. The grants vary from €5,000 to €25,000.

Immunotherapy stimulates the cancer patient's own immune system to attack the cancer. However, this therapy is not effective in all patients. With a grant from the Nypels-Van der Zee Fund, Dr Noel de Miranda has developed a rapid, effective test to select suitable patients.

Fourth-year medical student Lucianne Remijn did a half-year medical internship in the Gushegu District of northern Ghana. She helped a Dutch doctor of tropical medicne who is researching how to improve maternity care there.

Military veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder often have symptoms that are both chronic and complex. Professor by Special Appointment Eric Vermetten is looking for new ways to help them deal with these. One possible medicine: party drug MDMA.

Retired Major General Rob Nypels (88) has donated a sizeable sum to the Nypels-Tans PTSD Fund that he himself established – one of the ‘named funds’ at the Leiden University Fund – to promote interdisciplinary research into psychotraumatology. The main aim is to research the effect of new treatments and thus improve the care for veterans and members of the armed forces.

For his research master’s degree in linguistics, Renger van Dasselaar flew to the other side of the world to conduct research into Binumarien, a language spoken by about 1,200 people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Through the Prof.dr. A.W. Byvanck Fund, Classical Mediterranean archaeologist dr. Tymon de Haas has received a grant of €6,350 for his research on the ecological impact of Roman expansion.

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