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Hubertus Irth new scientific director LACDR20 May 2016Prof. dr. Hubertus Irth will be appointed as the new Scientific Director to the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) starting September 1s...
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Seven new Medical Delta professors20 May 2016Medical Delta has appointed seven professors who will bridge the medical worlds of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam.
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Wilbert de Witte received the Poster Award at the Dutch Pharmacological Society Spring Meeting26 April 2016on Friday 22nd of April, at the successful Spring Meeting of the Dutch Pharmacological Society (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Farmacologie) was held at ...
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Coats, glasses and gloves, your last line of defense13 April 2016Marie Curie once said: I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical ...
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Margreke Brill wins TOP Publication Award NVKFB01 April 2016On the annual spring meeting of the Dutch Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics (NVKFB), Margreke Brill received the TOP Publication ...
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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...