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At the next Dies Natalis – the University’s birthday – on 8 February 2013, Paul F. van der Heijden (1949), Rector Magnificus and Chairman of the Executive Board of Leiden University, will be passing the baton to his successor.
Old age comes with ailments. In view of the aging wave we currently face, what are we to do about these ailments? Biologist Pim Dekker discovered that the cells of people who come from families that live longer than average differ in a number of beneficial ways from those of their peers. In addition, these people’s cells display similarities with those of much younger people. PhD defence 28 February 2012.
A cultural delegation from Taiwan has presented 175 books and journals to Leiden University. The gift is meant as thanks for all the research carried out by the university on the subject of the indigenous peoples of Formosa, as Taiwan was called in the past.