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NWO awards funding for LACDR research project to develop novel engineering approaches to study cancer immunity 22 December 2017
As part of the HTSM2017 funding program, the LACDR division for Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology received 1.08 million euros for a research projec...
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Immune system important in atherosclerosis 18 December 2017
The immune system plays an important role in the development of atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of cardiovascular diseases. Thomas van der Heijd...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017
Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...
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Tailored medicines 06 December 2017
Medicines do not follow the one size fits all principle, because genetic differences can influence their efficiency. That is what research by PhD cand...
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Medicine development is hunting magic bullets 30 November 2017
Medicines are becoming increasingly precise and innovative, but at the same time increasingly expensive. With their innovations, it is up to universit...
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Inhibiting protein production potentially a weapon against Alzheimer’s 22 November 2017
Inhibiting specific protein production in the human body can serve as a crucial weapon in the fight against Alzheimer's, Eline van Maanen believes. Ph...
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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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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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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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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...