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Detecting diseases with molecules in the body 19 February 2019
Is it possible to diagnose diseases using molecular switches? The new international consortium LogicLab will address this question. Leiden chemist Syl...
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‘Take medicine target saturation into account’ 25 January 2019
Not taking into account the saturation of drug targets can lead to wrong conclusions about the duration of a drug's action. This is what former PhD ca...
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Amanda Foks receives Dekker grant from Dutch Hartstichting 24 January 2019
Pharmacologist Amanda Foks is one of the ten talented scientists who received a Dekker grant from the Hartstichting. She receives €427,000 to find a w...
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Rob van Wijk has won the oral presentations of the National PhD Competition during the FIGON Dutch Medicine Days 09 October 2018
He presented his PhD research entitled “Kick-starting drug development; translational systems pharmacology using innovative zebrafish experiments and ...
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Laura Heitman has received two awards at the EFMC-ISMC 2018 25 September 2018
Laura Heitman won the prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia and the 2017 RSC MedChemComm prize.
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A rock star in a Petri dish 18 September 2018
Featuring the world’s first neural synthesizer, artist Guy Ben-Ary and his collaborators will perform at the TodaysArt Festival in The Hague on 21 Sep...
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Successful LACDR Spring symposium 2018 14 September 2018
On May 3rd, we had a successful LACDR Spring symposium. Traditionally the Spring symposium is an important platform for our PhD’s. We have highlightin...
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MICA-mediated immunity: a new opportunity for improving corneal graft survival 14 September 2018
Corneal transplantation is one of the most common human organ transplantations worldwide. Although the 1-year survival rate is as high as 90%, more th...
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Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia 19 July 2018
Laura Heitman is awarded the 2018 EFMC runner-up prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia
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Diagnosing patients with the help of statistical physics 26 April 2018
Doctors are there to diagnose and treat people. But sometimes a diagnosis can’t be made or doctors differ in opinion. Luckily, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari...
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Innovative approach to antibiotic resistance 26 April 2018
Resistance to antibiotics is a major problem in health care. Thanks to a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund and the LUF, pharmacologist dr. Coen van H...
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Erik Danen appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery 24 April 2018
As of April 1, 2018, Erik Danen has been appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR...
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Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics 12 April 2018
In the field of metabolomics, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of h...
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Sensing drug responses of single cells using optical tweezers 12 April 2018
Light can be used to apply forces on single cells. Focused lasers have been used by physicists to tweeze particles and to manipulate them. These so ca...
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Seventeen million for Dutch X-omics Initiative 12 April 2018
The Dutch X-omics Initiative has received seventeen million euros from NWO as part of the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Infrastructure. Leiden Univ...