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€8.5m for research into healthy ageing and vitality25 April 2019A large multidisciplinary team of experts on ageing has secured over €8.5m for a major study of which factors and solutions promote healthy ageing and...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of Ecology04 April 2019Professor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...
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The Mastermind approach to brain research19 March 2019The brain is a complex organ, and researching medicine to treat brain disorders is equally if not more complex. Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de Lange, Profess...
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Lindsey Burggraaff and Emma Koemans win FameLab heat12 March 2019Which young researchers were best at explaining their research to a general audience? Twelve researchers battled it out at the FameLab heat on 7 March...
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‘Test medicines after five days’05 March 2019What is the best method and time to test the effectiveness of medicines? PhD student Rob van Wijk of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LAC...
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Leiden University Day in China26 February 2019A Leiden University Day, new agreements on exchanging PhD students and a keynote speech by Geert de Snoo at a popular symposium. In November, a Facult...
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FameLab: young scientists take the stage26 February 2019In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The...
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Portraits Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot on Hartstichting.nl21 February 2019The 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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Detecting diseases with molecules in the body19 February 2019Is it possible to diagnose diseases using molecular switches? The new international consortium LogicLab will address this question. Leiden chemist Syl...
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Monitoring Cytoskeletal Conductance Variation for Sensing Cancer Drug Resistance15 February 2019Actin and microtubules form cellular cytoskeletal network, which mediates cell shape, motility and proliferation and are key targets for cancer therap...
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De Witte et al publish in Nature Drug Discovery Reviews15 February 2019Nature Reviews Drug Discovery volume 18, pages 82–84 (2019). The implications of target saturation for the use of drug–target residence time Wil...
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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’08 February 2019His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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‘Take medicine target saturation into account’25 January 2019Not taking into account the saturation of drug targets can lead to wrong conclusions about the duration of a drug's action. This is what former PhD ca...
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Amanda Foks receives Dekker grant from Dutch Hartstichting24 January 2019Pharmacologist 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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Unwinding a hank of yarn: how do cellular machines unfold misfolded proteins?14 December 2018Protein chains typically fold to function. Folding is a complex process and if done correctly leads to a unique functional fold topology for a given p...