Can anti-inflammatory drugs be used to treat diabetes type two and cardiovascular diseases? Janna van Diepen did research on the subject and discovered that these medicines can play an important role in the fight against such common diseases.
The PhD students at the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts of Leiden University include a composer, an artist and a baroque flautist. Henk Borgdorff, who studied the phenomenon of PhDs in the Arts, says, ‘Artistic research in all disciplines of the Arts is a booming business worldwide.’
Requests for asylum that are rejected in the first instance are frequently accepted following an appeal or a second application: the reasons for the original rejection are often difficult to prove. PhD defence Tycho Walaardt 24 April.