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Pharmacy in Leiden #21 in QS ranking 201622 March 2016This year, the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research ranks #21 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, the institute ranks as th...
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Why fundamental science matters21 March 2016Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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LACDR female professors amongst reveilation Senate Chamber09 March 2016On International Women’s Day 2016 the portrait photos of LACDR female Science Professors were unveiled amongst 89 other female Professors of Leiden Un...
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Screening enormous databases to find a cure for cancer08 March 2016Pharmaceutical research should make more use of data science, says Gerard van Westen, postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Resea...
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Tumours can use ‘remote control’ to attract blood vessels02 March 2016Researchers at Leiden University have demonstrated that tumours can apply mechanical means to attract the blood vessels they need to be able to grow....
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Cancer vaccine packaged in minute particles22 February 2016Leiden researchers have carried out successful tests using a new method of packaging a cancer vaccine in nano-particles. The new vaccine has induced a...
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Safety at work....headphones?19 February 2016I would like to start with my “personal safety risk”. In the last years I noticed it is becoming more accepted to listen to music using earphones in t...
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Ratification of High Troughput Microscopy Dutch Flagship Node as Euro-BioImaging Node Candidate19 February 2016
The High Troughput Microscopy Dutch Flagship Node that includes the Leiden Cell Observatory Screening platform is now officially ratified as a Euro-Bi...
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Flipping the Bio-chemistry II Classroom19 February 2016Our educational team has been awarded an ICTO-grant of €12000 for the LACDR for flipping the Biochemistry 2 classroom.
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€1.4 million for research into flavour in food29 January 2016The flavour of foodstuffs can be predicted by measuring the dynamic of their chemical components. Researchers, including Thomas Hankemeijer, will rece...
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Prof. dr. W. Jiskoot listed in Thomson Reuters 2015 Highly Cited Researchers18 January 2016The list of highly Cited Researchers identifies the world’s most influential contemporary researchers across 21 scientific fields. Prof. dr. W. Jisko...
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Discoverer of the Year, Best Dissertation and Education prize 201505 January 2016During the Faculty of Science New Year's reception, Daniël Rozen was named Discoverer of the year 2015. Nienke van der Marel and Koen van der Maaden b...
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How killer -T-cells migrate towards virus-infected cells01 December 2015
Joost Beltman (LACDR, Leiden University) has provided novel insights in the way T cells migrate towards virus-infected cells. This was accomplished b...
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Different medication dosage for morbidly obese patients01 December 2015PhD research recently completed by pharmacologist Margreke Brill shows that morbidly obese patients should be given a different dosage of the drugs Ce...
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Tineke Berkers has won an award24 November 2015Tineke Berkers has won an award for outstanding contribution for her poster at the Gordon Research Conference at Waterville Valley, USA.