News
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Alireza Mashaghi appointed Adjunct Professor at Fudan University 31 October 2017
Alireza Mashaghi, a principal investigator at the Division of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology has been appointed Adjunct Professor at the Ocular ...
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Successful symposium Present-day Practicals. 12 October 2017
On the 29th of August 2017 Janine Geerling and Marjo de Graauw, together with their collaborating partners at Kryt B.V., organized a national symposiu...
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Promising new collaborations with Institut Teknologi Bandung 17 September 2017
The Faculty of Science forges new research collaborations with the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia in the fields of tropical diseases, e.g. tu...
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Dutch Cancer Society Fund grant for Leiden breast cancer research 30 August 2017
Cell biologist Erik Danen has been awarderd a grant of half a million euros to study how tumor cells spread throughout the body en develop drug resist...
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Gut-on-chip good predictor of drug side-effects 17 August 2017
Research conducted at Leiden has established that guts-on-chips respond in the same way to aspirin as real human organs do. This is a sign that these ...
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Topology of polymer chains under nanoscale confinement: insights into genome folding 15 August 2017
This month, a paper was published in Nanoscale by scientists from Dr. Alireza Mashaghi group at the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology Division in c...
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Interdisciplinary research and new friends during LACDR Summer School 31 July 2017
From the Republic of Moldova to Italy and from Indonesia to Greece, students from all over the world participated in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Science Su...
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Nanoparticles: a wonder material with a downside? 13 July 2017
Minute nanoparticles are bringing about a completely new industrial revolution. But little is known about the possible dangers to the food chain. An i...
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Successful implementation of BFW LabBuddy tool 09 June 2017
In June 2016, Janine Geerling and Marjo de Graauw were awarded a LUF-grant of €10.000 to design a digital laboratory support tool for the 2nd year BFW...
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Vidis for eleven Leiden researchers 30 May 2017
Eleven talented Leiden researchers with several years of research experience have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of re...
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Focus on kinetics for better drug development 04 April 2017
Potential drugs that seem promising in the lab, but don’t show any activity in a person: they cost the industry an incredible amount of time and money...
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Founding father of pharmacological models 31 March 2017
After 41 years, Meindert Danhof, Professor of Pharmacology, is leaving the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research on 31 March. A symposium in his ho...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions 23 March 2017
Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Metabolomics Implementation Network launched for fair data 14 March 2017
On 10 March 2017, Professor Karel Luyben (TU Delft) welcomed the ‘Metabolomics GO FAIR Implementation Network’ as community initiative to start the Eu...
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Predicting drug behaviour in the brain 09 March 2017
Does a drug enter into the human brain once administered in the body?