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Portraits Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot on Hartstichting.nl 21 February 2019
The Heart Foundation has portrayed researchers Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) who fight heart and b...
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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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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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Engineering innate immunity for therapy 12 April 2018
Immune system defends our body against pathogens and cancerous cells, but excessive immunity can in turn lead to tissue damages and diseases. For exam...
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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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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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Stressed brain, stressed heart? 17 January 2017
Ilze Bot and Johan Kuiper have published in The Lancet: Study unveils how stress may increase risk of heart disease and stroke. Aso: The National Dut...
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Publication PhD student Eva Kritikou accepted in Scientific Reports: 30 November 2016
A recent publication by Biopharmaceutics PhD-candidate Eva Kritikou has been accepted by the renowned scientific journal Scientific Reports.
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Amanda Foks receives prestigious Junior Postdoc fellowship 09 August 2016
Dr. Amanda Foks obtained a fellowship from the dr. E. Dekker-program for the project ' Can promotion of efferocytosis induce regression of atheroscler...
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Inhibition of MicroRNA-494 reduces carotid artery atherosclerotic lesion development and increases plaque stability 04 August 2016
Publication by: Anouk Wezel, Sabine Welten, Wida Razawy, Max Lagraauw, Margreet de Vries, Eveline Goossens, Martin Boonstra, Jaap Hamming, Ekambar Kan...
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Heat-killed Staphylococcus aureus reduces atherosclerosis by inducing anti-inflammatory macrophages 04 August 2016
Publication by: Vanessa Frodermann, Janine van Duijn, Gijs van Puijvelde, Peter van Santbrink, Max Lagraauw, Margreet de Vries, Paul Quax, Ilze Bot, A...
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CD11b+Gr-1+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells reduce atherosclerotic lesion development in LDLr deficient mi 04 August 2016
Publication by: Amanda Foks, Gijs van Puijvelde, Jolien Wolbert, Mara Kröner, Vanessa Frodermann, Thomas van der Heijden, Peter van Santbrink, Louis B...
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Looking back at the LACDR Spring Symposium 2016 26 May 2016
Tuesday May 24th, the LACDR Annual Spring Symposium was held.
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Miranda van Eck inaugural lecture: detergent tablets for clean, fat-free blood vessels 08 September 2015
In her inaugural lecture on 11 September, Miranda van Eck, Professor of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Therapeutics, addressed her research related to d...
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Cellular therapy promising treatment for arteriosclerosis 21 May 2015
Vanessa Frodermann, a PhD student at the Biopharmaceutical department of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, has discovered that arterioscle...