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Winners of Heineken Prizes announced

Biomedical scientist Peter Carmeliet, biologist Paul Hebert, cognitive scientist Nancy Kanwisher, historian John R. McNeill and biophysicist Xiaowei Zhuang are receiving the Heineken Prizes 2018. The Heineken Prizes, each worth USD 200,000, will be presented on Thursday 27 September 2018 in Amsterdam.

Make replication studies a normal part of science

The systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science. That is the main message of the Academy advisory report ‘Replication studies – Improving reproducibility in the empirical sciences’, published on 15 January 2018.

The Dutch Polder Model in science and research

In this essay the authors explore how such a small country could become a global player in science and research.

Press release Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Brain protein overactive in Parkinson’s disease

A team of neuroscientists from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience demonstrated for the first time that a protein involved in the formation of nerve fibers and neuronal connections could be involved in Parkinson’s disease.

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