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COVID-19 Research and Education at Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research18 May 2020Since the start of the Corona crisis, several COVID-19 related research and teaching projects were started at LACDR. The computational and teaching ac...
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Predicting and preventing serious COVID-19 symptoms07 May 2020Scientists in Leiden are looking for signals in blood samples to predict whether patients will develop serious COVID-19 symptoms or not. Based on that...
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Successful start of e-learning skills platform in Brightspace29 April 2020For the first time, students were able to develop their skills using a digital platform in Brightspace. It turned out to be a success: on average stud...
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Ad IJzerman wins prestigious Nauta Pharmacochemistry Award22 April 2020Professor of Pharmacochemistry Ad IJzerman has won the Nauta Award for his years of research into signal processing proteins that are interesting for ...
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International media report on Leiden dosage app for corona patients30 March 2020Coen van Hasselt's research group quickly produced an app that enables doctors to determine the correct dosage of commonly used medicines for corona p...
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App helps doctors find the right dose of corona medication25 March 2020Leiden researchers have developed an app that doctors can use to more easily determine the right dosage of medication for corona patients. At the mome...
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Understanding metastasis: Science Groot grant for Erik Danen05 March 2020A team led by Erik Danen from the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research has received a 3 million euros NWO Science Groot grant to unravel the first...
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The QSPainRelief consortium will improve the treatment of chronic pain28 February 2020The €6.24 million EU-funded research project QSPainRelief has kicked off. The project aims to help patients suffering from chronic pain with novel, pe...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists24 February 2020Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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Partnering with businesses to scale up metabolism research21 February 2020Predicting whether someone will fall ill and which treatment will benefit them most: that is the aim of the techniques that Professor of Analytical Bi...
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New insight into immune cell behaviour offers opportunities for cancer treatment13 February 2020An international group of scientists has discovered that certain cells of our immune system – the so-called T cells – communicate with each other and ...
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Honorary Doctor Elizabeth de Lange honoured in Uppsala05 February 2020Professor Elizabeth de Lange was honoured on 31 January by the University of Uppsala, which appointed her Honorary Doctor at the end of 2019. During t...
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NWO grant for smart software that searches for new medicines04 February 2020Gerard van Westen and his group, together with pharmaceutical company Galapagos, start on developing software that invents new effective molecules. Th...
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Ebola-on-a-chip: Leiden scientists against a fatal virus03 February 2020Although Ebola is a virus with significant fatality rates, we still lack effective countermeasures to battle it. To change this, Alireza Mashaghi and ...
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Awards for three Leiden Partnership projects with industry sector28 January 2020NWO is funding three partnership projects with the industry sector. The projects relate to speeding up the search for new medicines, studying the chan...