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Innovative approach to antibiotic resistance26 April 2018Resistance to antibiotics is a major problem in health care. Thanks to a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund and the LUF, pharmacologist dr. Coen van H...
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Erik Danen appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery24 April 2018As of April 1, 2018, Erik Danen has been appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR...
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Shaping proteins to understand chaperone-related diseases18 April 2018Alireza Mashaghi and his research team have created a new framework to understand shapes of proteins and DNA. With this framework, many diseases can b...
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Engineering innate immunity for therapy12 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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Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics12 April 2018In the field of metabolomics, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of h...
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Sensing drug responses of single cells using optical tweezers12 April 2018Light 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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Seventeen million for Dutch X-omics Initiative12 April 2018The Dutch X-omics Initiative has received seventeen million euros from NWO as part of the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Infrastructure. Leiden Univ...
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How to easily measure your health26 March 2018Easily detecting chemical substances that indicate whether or not someone is ill, or measuring how healthy the environment is, and directly linking th...
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Leiden PhD team in finals international pharmacological competition22 March 2018A team of five PhD students from Leiden University is in the running for first prize in the Pharmacometrics Skills Competition. In a drug development ...
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De Lange appointed Professor of Predictive pharmacology14 March 2018As of 1 March 2018, Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de Lange has been appointed as Professor of Predictive pharmacology at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Re...
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Female talent in the spotlight07 March 2018The representation of women in science is improving, also at the Faculty of Science. On 8 March – International Women's Day – we highlight the work of...
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Discoverer of the Year bridges science and medicine14 February 2018Fascinated by science since high school, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is driven to explore new ways of thinking in medicine. With a strong academic network...
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Altering the appearance of macrophages to prevent atherosclerosis08 February 2018It might be possible to prevent atherosclerosis by changing the appearance of macrophages, cells of the immune system that for example digest foreign ...
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Leiden breakthrough in research on nanotherapy29 January 2018Nanoparticles that transport medicines to a specific part of the human body are usually broken down in the liver prematurely. Jeroen Bussmann from Lei...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 201709 January 2018With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...