Lezing | Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
Designing the next generation of precision medicine
- Datum
- dinsdag 14 oktober 2025
- Tijd
- Locatie
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Gorlaeus Building
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden - Zaal
- CM1.26
Tuesday Talks: Science Insights is de maandelijkse dosis onderzoeksinspiratie van Leiden Science, van onze medewerkers, voor onze medewerkers en alle andere nieuwsgierigen.
De voertaal van deze lezingenreeks is Engels
How can we target only the cells that cause disease—while leaving healthy cells untouched? Can we deliver drugs precisely where they are needed, minimising harmful side effects? And what if we could activate a drug at a specific time and place, reducing long-term toxicity?
Join us for this Tuesday Talk, where Professor Kim Bonger will explain how click reactions—highly selective and efficient chemical processes—can be harnessed for biomedical applications. She will show how these reactions make it possible to control therapeutic activity with extraordinary precision, opening new pathways for safer and more effective treatments.
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Everyone who is interested in this edition's topic is welcome. Please let us know if you are attending.
RegisterProgramme
The programme of the Tuesday Talks: Science Insights is:
| 15.45 hrs | Take a seat |
| 16.00 hrs | Tuesday Talks: Science Insights |
| 17.00 hrs | Drinks |
Click chemistry at work
At the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC), Bonger’s lab develops selective chemistry and chemoenzymatic methods that work seamlessly within biological systems. These strategies aim to control therapeutic and cell activity in space and time, paving the way for the next generation of precision medicine. Her group focuses on creating innovative tools at the interface of chemistry and biology: from novel bioorthogonal reactions and molecular probes to advanced strategies for imaging, target discovery, and disease modulation. Together, these efforts seek to unravel and influence the cellular mechanisms behind (auto)immune diseases.
About the speaker
Kim Bonger is Professor of Chemical Biology at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry. Her research centres on bioorthogonal chemistry and chemoenzymatic methods for imaging, target discovery and precision medicine. She also develops molecular probes and new chemical biology approaches to study and modulate immune-related disease processes.
About Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
Tuesday Talks: Science Insights is Leiden Science’s monthly dose of research inspiration from our staff, for our staff and all others curious minds. Every second Tuesday of the month from 16:00 hrs till 17:00 hrs, drinks and meet up afterwards till 18.00 hrs.