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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...
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NWO awards funding for LACDR research project to develop novel engineering approaches to study cancer immunity22 December 2017
As part of the HTSM2017 funding program, the LACDR division for Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology received 1.08 million euros for a research projec...
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Immune system important in atherosclerosis18 December 2017The immune system plays an important role in the development of atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of cardiovascular diseases. Thomas van der Heijd...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year14 December 2017Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...
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Tailored medicines06 December 2017Medicines do not follow the one size fits all principle, because genetic differences can influence their efficiency. That is what research by PhD cand...
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Medicine development is hunting magic bullets30 November 2017Medicines are becoming increasingly precise and innovative, but at the same time increasingly expensive. With their innovations, it is up to universit...
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Inhibiting protein production potentially a weapon against Alzheimer’s22 November 2017Inhibiting specific protein production in the human body can serve as a crucial weapon in the fight against Alzheimer's, Eline van Maanen believes. Ph...
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Alireza Mashaghi appointed Adjunct Professor at Fudan University31 October 2017Alireza Mashaghi, a principal investigator at the Division of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology has been appointed Adjunct Professor at the Ocular ...
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Successful symposium Present-day Practicals.12 October 2017On the 29th of August 2017 Janine Geerling and Marjo de Graauw, together with their collaborating partners at Kryt B.V., organized a national symposiu...