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Julia Hillger wins first prize during FIGON PhD poster competition08 October 2015Drs. Julia Hillger won the first prize for the category "signal transduction" during the PhD poster presentation competition at the FIGON Dutch Medici...
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Dr. Gerard van Westen receives VENI grant08 October 2015Gerard van Westen (LACDR/division of medicinal chemistry) has been awarded with a VENI grant from NWO, the Dutch Research Council.
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Miranda van Eck inaugural lecture: detergent tablets for clean, fat-free blood vessels08 September 2015In her inaugural lecture on 11 September, Miranda van Eck, Professor of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Therapeutics, addressed her research related to d...
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Laura Groen attends STeLA forum23 July 2015
Laura Groen, MSc student at LACDR’s division of medicinal chemistry, has been elected to attend the Science and Technology Leadership Assocation (STeL...
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Bart Lenselink will represent LACDR at the FIGON Dutch Medicines Days23 July 2015Drs. Bart Lenselink won the oral presentation at the LACDR Spring Symposium with his presentation “Predicting Drug Potency”.
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Prof.dr. Ad IJzerman appointed as Secretary of The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities14 July 2015
As of May 2015, Prof. dr. Ad Ijzerman has been appointed as Secretary of The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
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Drug development: how can we make it more efficient?14 July 2015It takes years to develop new medicines, from the test tube to trials in humans. During the process it often happens that a drug that seems promising ...
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Interview with Rawi Ramautar at ASMS Conference 201510 June 2015Live from the ASMS Conference 2015 in Saint Louis: Baljit Ubhi, our Metabolomics Specialist, has a coffee with Rawi Ramautar, Assistant Professor at t...
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New measuring method facilitates drug research29 May 2015
Leiden chemical biologists led by Dr Mario van der Stelt have developed a method to facilitate the search for new drugs. This method has allowed them ...
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Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences ranks ninth in the QS World University Rankings28 May 2015Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences has done very well in the QS World University Rankings, being allocated a very impressive ninth position.
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The Netherlands becomes global player organ-on-chip technology21 May 2015Organ-on-chip technology is used in drug research and customized treatments for patients. Research Institutes and industry join forces within the Inst...
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Cellular therapy promising treatment for arteriosclerosis21 May 2015Vanessa Frodermann, a PhD student at the Biopharmaceutical department of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, has discovered that arterioscle...
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Better, faster and earlier diagnosis with new Metabolomics Facility15 April 2015On Friday 17 April Leiden Mayor Henri Lenferink will officially open the new Metabolomics Facility of Leiden University. The facility’s ultimate goal ...
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Dr. Dong Guo won the Dutch Medicinal Chemistry prize 2013-201431 March 2015On March 27th, 2015 the biannual Dutch Medicinal Chemistry Prize for the best Dutch Ph.D. thesis in the field was awarded to Dr. Dong Guo, a current p...
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Leiden researchers discover genes that affect spread of breast cancer18 March 2015Researchers at Leiden University have mapped genes that cause breast cancer cells to migrate. The Leiden toxicologists Professor Bob van de Water, Dr ...