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Virtual children help prevent withdrawal syndrome in real children25 May 2021When children wean off from heavy medication, they often experience withdrawal symptoms. The severity of these symptoms is often difficult to predict....
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Animation: Why Leiden is the birthplace of the Janssen vaccine25 May 2021If you'll soon be getting a COVID-19 vaccine, you might just get the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) one. This vaccine was developed for the most part in ...
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NWO grant for research facility into the impact of environmental factors on health21 May 2021What is the influence of non-hereditary factors on our health, such as lifestyle, diet and exposure to harmful substances? The Exposome-Scan project, ...
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Virtual preparation for lab practicals17 May 2021How can we better prepare students for their practicals, so that they learn more from them? Marjo de Graauw and her colleagues want to renew science e...
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How do you determine the right medicine dosage for a child?16 April 2021What’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 diseases11 March 2021Leiden 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 Award10 March 2021Data 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-chip10 March 2021A 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 Sciences16 February 2021The 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-CHDR08 February 2021Pharmacist-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 2021At 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 ToxProfiler28 January 2021Toxys, 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 research17 December 2020How 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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Assessing the safety of chemicals and medicines without laboratory animals02 December 2020One of the holy grails of drug research is to be able to assess the safety of chemicals and pharmaceuticals without using laboratory animals. Research...
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Laura Heitman appointed as Professor of Molecular Pharmacology26 November 2020As of 1 November, Laura Heitman has been appointed full Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). H...