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Elke Krekels receives Publication Award Dutch Society of Clinical Pharmacology14 April 2014Krekels received both the Thesis Award and the TOP Publication Award for her thesis 'Size does matter: drug glucuronidation in children'. Her research...
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Movements of steroid receptors inside the cell nucleus unraveled01 April 2014
Advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques have revealed how steroid receptors move inside the nucleus. The results were published by a team from Lei...
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Gerard van Westen 2013 Discoverer of the Year23 January 2014Former PhD student Gerard van Westen was granted the C.J. Kok Award also known as “Discoverer of the Year”. A festive ceremony took place at the Facul...
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Marjolein Soethoudt wins Unilever Research Prize02 December 2013
Marjolein Soethoudt was awarded the Unilever Research Prize 2013 for the University of Leiden. The prize was bestowed upon her because of her thesis a...
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Annelien Zweemer wins three poster prizes17 October 2013
Annelien Zweemer was awarded three poster prizes for her poster ‘Discovery of an intracellular binding site for small molecule antagonists at the chem...
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Maris Vilums wins LACDR Spring Symposium PhD competition29 May 2013
Maris Vilums was elected as the winner of the annual PhD Competition at the LACDR Spring Symposium, May 23rd 2013, with his oral presentation: " Small...
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Professor Joke Bouwstra elected as KNAW member23 May 2013Professor Joke Bouwstra has been elected as member of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW, The Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences). This is ...
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Prof.dr. Catherijne Knibbe wins VIDI grant21 May 2013Predictable variation in children’s dosage Professor Catherijne Knibbe – Pharmacology There is no adequate foundation for te dosage of medicines presc...
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New zebrafish study to understand human cancer06 October 2012Ewa Snaar-Jagalska, Shuning He and colleagues from IBL, LION and LACDR reported on a new zebrafish study to understand micrometastasis of human cancer...
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Melly Oitzl is new NWO ALW board member19 May 2011The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) comprises several units. Eight Divisions for Sciences develop new research programmes, asse...
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Leiden Medicinal Chemistry researcher Andreas Bender receives prestigious EFMC Prize26 April 2010Andreas Bender, Assistant Professor for Medicinal Chemistry in the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Leiden / Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, re...
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25 Years Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences: Combined fascination22 September 200925 Years ago, the Center for Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences was founded at Leiden University; one year later, in 1985, the education program of Bio-Pharm...
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Newly discovered gene regulates balance of ‘bad cholesterol’22 June 2009In a publication in Science, Noam Zelcer from the Division of Biopharmaceutics describes a previously unrecognized pathway to regulate LDL-cholesterol...
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Inaugural Lecture Professor Herman van Vlijmen04 May 2009Prof.Dr. Herman van Vlijmen was appointed as Professor of Computational Drug Discovery at the Division of Medicinal Chemistry in Leiden on April 15th,...
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Millions of people to help with new synthetic skin cream17 March 2009A team of researchers has managed to recreate the most natural skin cream in existence. Using the DUBBLE beamline (Dutch Belgian Beamline) at the Euro...