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12-08-2026

SPIDeRR Annual Newsletter Issue 3

In this issue, we bring you the latest highlights from the Horizon Europe funded consortium. Discover the achievements from the SPIDeRR's work packages, hear from our Patient Advisory Group and watch a video why people with lived disease experience should join research projects.

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24-11-2025
Blog - Bridging Borders, Connecting Minds

What happens when Spanish and Dutch collaboration becomes inspiration. Inés Pérez-Sancristóbal, a passionate rheumatologist from Spain, came to Leiden with a strong clinical background but limited experience in research and data science. For six months, she will be immersed in a research project within the SPIDeRR bioinformatics domain to explore how AI can be applied at a patient level.

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16-06-2025

All Rheumatoid Arthritis is Not the Same

Exciting news! SPIDeRR members Tjardo Maarseveen and Yasuo Nagafuchi’s EULAR abstracts were featured on RheumNow

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19-05-2025
Clustering in Healthcare - a video tutorial by Tjardo Maarseveen
In healthcare research, we often search for a single definitive marker to divide patients into distinct categories. But perhaps we should, instead of our traditional approach, embrace complexity by exploring subtle, interconnected patterns across multiple variables. As disease manifestation rarely follows simple either/or classifications.
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17-12-2024

WP6 update

 Enhancing the patient journey for rheumatic and musculoskeletal Diseases...

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