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Promising new collaborations with Institut Teknologi Bandung17 September 2017The Faculty of Science forges new research collaborations with the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia in the fields of tropical diseases, e.g. tu...
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Dutch Cancer Society Fund grant for Leiden breast cancer research30 August 2017Cell biologist Erik Danen has been awarderd a grant of half a million euros to study how tumor cells spread throughout the body en develop drug resist...
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Gut-on-chip good predictor of drug side-effects17 August 2017Research conducted at Leiden has established that guts-on-chips respond in the same way to aspirin as real human organs do. This is a sign that these ...
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Topology of polymer chains under nanoscale confinement: insights into genome folding15 August 2017
This month, a paper was published in Nanoscale by scientists from Dr. Alireza Mashaghi group at the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology Division in c...
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Interdisciplinary research and new friends during LACDR Summer School31 July 2017From the Republic of Moldova to Italy and from Indonesia to Greece, students from all over the world participated in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Science Su...
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Nanoparticles: a wonder material with a downside?13 July 2017Minute nanoparticles are bringing about a completely new industrial revolution. But little is known about the possible dangers to the food chain. An i...
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Successful implementation of BFW LabBuddy tool09 June 2017In June 2016, Janine Geerling and Marjo de Graauw were awarded a LUF-grant of €10.000 to design a digital laboratory support tool for the 2nd year BFW...
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Vidis for eleven Leiden researchers30 May 2017Eleven talented Leiden researchers with several years of research experience have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of re...
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Focus on kinetics for better drug development04 April 2017Potential drugs that seem promising in the lab, but don’t show any activity in a person: they cost the industry an incredible amount of time and money...
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Founding father of pharmacological models31 March 2017After 41 years, Meindert Danhof, Professor of Pharmacology, is leaving the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research on 31 March. A symposium in his ho...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions23 March 2017Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Metabolomics Implementation Network launched for fair data14 March 2017On 10 March 2017, Professor Karel Luyben (TU Delft) welcomed the ‘Metabolomics GO FAIR Implementation Network’ as community initiative to start the Eu...
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Predicting drug behaviour in the brain09 March 2017Does a drug enter into the human brain once administered in the body?
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Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences in Leiden rises to 17th place in QS Ranking09 March 2017Leiden pharmacy and pharmacology has risen to 17th place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. In 2016 it was in 21st place in this annual r...
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Discussing the NSE: the national student survey03 March 2017
Last January, 20th, a new NSE-lunch-discussion took place. The NSE is an annual national survey among all bachelor and master students, and asks them ...