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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...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 201813 December 2018Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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Laura Heitman uses her expertise to fight cancer06 December 2018Seven talented female scientists join the fight against cancer of the Oncode Insitute. Laura Heitman of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research i...
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14 Leiden researchers on highly cited list03 December 2018Fourteen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 28 November by Clarivate Analytics.
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Tiny, pain-free vaccinations: microneedles and nanoparticles30 October 2018If it’s up to PhD student Guangsheng Du, patients don’t need to worry about big needles anymore. At the Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research (LACD...
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Millions invested in Leiden method of determining sex of chicks before hatching29 October 2018Discovering whether a chick is male or female while it is still in the egg. Leiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has been g...
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Rob van Wijk has won the oral presentations of the National PhD Competition during the FIGON Dutch Medicine Days09 October 2018He presented his PhD research entitled “Kick-starting drug development; translational systems pharmacology using innovative zebrafish experiments and ...
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First Leiden Science Family Day: glitter gel, virtual reality and ice-cold clouds09 October 2018The first Leiden Science Family Day on Saturday 6 October was a great success. During the ‘Weekend of Science’ more than 700 visitors, including 350 c...