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How do you determine the right medicine dosage for a child? 16 April 2021
What’s the right dosage of medication for children? Assistant professor Elke Krekels and her colleagues discovered that for some medicines, you can de...
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Bio-inspired engineering to fight emerging viral diseases 11 March 2021
Leiden Scientists are getting prepared to tackle future epidemics. A group of scientists led by Dr. Alireza Mashaghi has used innovative engineering a...
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Lindsey Burggraaff wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award 10 March 2021
Data scientist Lindsey Burggraaff has won the second edition of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award. She receives the prize for her research ...
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Erik Danen part of NWO Perspectief grant for organ-on-chip 10 March 2021
A consortium of research groups, including that of LACDR professor Erik Danen, will use an NWO Perspective grant of nearly five million euros to build...
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences 16 February 2021
The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists...
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Robert Rissmann appointed professor of Translational Dermatology at LACDR-CHDR 08 February 2021
Pharmacist-clinical pharmacologist Robert Rissmann has been appointed Professor of Translational Dermatology. This extraordinary professorship has bee...
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‘Looking back, this past year will be a very important period in my life’ 01 February 2021
At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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Animal-free chemical safety testing with new technology ToxProfiler 28 January 2021
Toxys, Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center have agreed immediately to commercialise and also develop further the ToxProfiler techno...
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Predicting and preventing Covid-19: 1 million euros for corona research 17 December 2020
How is it that some covid-19 patients are affected much worse than others? Can we predict beforehand which of them will develop critical symptoms Prof...
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Laura Heitman appointed as Professor of Molecular Pharmacology 26 November 2020
As of 1 November, Laura Heitman has been appointed full Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). H...
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A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy 25 November 2020
Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our moder...
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Liesbeth de Lange wins Lewis B. Sheiner Career Prize 13 November 2020
Pharmacologist Liesbeth de Lange has won the Lewis B. Sheiner Lecturer Award from the International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP). As Professor of...
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Two times KNMP Student Award for Leiden students 13 November 2020
This year, two Leiden master students will be awarded a KNMP Student Award. Both Wisse van Os and Jip Linthorst will receive 1,000 euros from the Roya...
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Steering the immune system with liposomes 28 September 2020
Liposomes – nano-sized spheres composed of fatty molecules – are very promising for vaccination. Bio-pharmaceutical scientist Naomi Benne discovered t...
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More skills and higher grades: E-learning skills platform continues to be a success 21 September 2020
After a promising start, also the second pilot of the digital Brightspace skills platform is a success. Third-year bachelor students had thirty new ...