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Developing new therapies to fight muscle disease 26 September 2022
Biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his collaborators are taking up the fight against muscular dystrophy: genetic disorders that cause muscle weakness. ...
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700,000 euros for the fight against aggressive breast cancer 19 July 2022
To inhibit proteins that contribute to the growth of aggressive cancer cells, that’s the plan of Professor Bob van de Water and his team. They will re...
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‘I am curious and full of passion for understanding molecular chemistry’ 07 July 2022
Since May, Assistant professor BioTherapeutics Lu Su works in our faculty. Although she is still young, she already worked in many different fields an...
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Skin researcher calls for multidisciplinary collaboration: ‘I want to pool expertise’ 06 July 2022
In dermatology, there should be a high level of multidisciplinary collaboration among institutes and specialists, Professor of Translational Dermatolo...
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How drugs work better when encapsulated in nanoparticles 04 June 2022
Chemist Tobias Bauer discovered ways to improve drugs by encapsulating them. Packages with iron nanoparticles, for example, can stimulate immune cells...
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EUFEPS Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award for Jara Bouma 03 June 2022
EUFEPS Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award for Jara Bouma
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How Oncode-PACT is bringing new cancer medicines closer with 325 million in Growth Fund money 18 May 2022
How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes ...
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Improving education with videos and humour 10 May 2022
To better prepare students for lab sessions, a team from the BSc-programme Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences (BFW) creates interactive videos. These videos ...
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Researchers tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria 06 May 2022
When a bacterium becomes more resistant to one antibiotic, it sometimes becomes more sensitive to another. To better understand this interaction, rese...
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Ad IJzerman 26 April 2022
Ad IJzerman, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacochemistry, was made a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 26 April. He was presented with...
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National Growth Fund invests many millions in faster and more sustainable (cancer) drug development 14 April 2022
On 14 April, the National Growth Fund awarded million euros in grants to two consortia in which Leiden's science faculty is involved. Pharma-NL will r...
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Better treatment of skin diseases thanks to NWA grant of 11.7 million euros 31 March 2022
Patients with skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis, sometimes spend a lifetime searching for the right medication. To help these patients faster...
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ERC grant for Sebastian Pomplun to precisely influence gene expression 30 March 2022
In order to stop a whole range of diseases or disorders at their source, you would have to be able to switch certain genes on or off. Sebastian Pomplu...
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Drugs with fewer side effects through a collaboration between LACDR and PTS 30 March 2022
LACDR, the Leiden Institute for Drug Research, developed better tolerated excipients to prevent adverse effects related to the surface of nanosized dr...
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Combating antibiotic resistance together 24 March 2022
Antibiotic resistance is a common problem among patients. The European Project TIPAT trains pharmacologists, microbiologists and immunologists of six ...