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‘Ultimately, the goal is to develop antibiotics for tuberculosis with a lower risk of resistance’23 November 2023Tuberculosis stands as one of the most lethal infectious diseases worldwide. A significant challenge in combatting tuberculosis lies in the emergence ...
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Seeking new concepts to treat diseases20 November 2023Drug development is a long process that begins with fundamental research. The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) is considered to be one...
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Joke Bouwstra is the first woman to receive the Dr Saal van Zwanenberg Honorary Prize: 'Wonderful to be in a line of distinguished scientists'16 November 2023Emeritus professor Joke Bouwstra (LACDR) will receive this year's Dr Saal van Zwanenberg Ereprijs: a tribute to her years of fundamental research on t...
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Sebastian Pomplun joins Oncode Institute to accelerate breakthroughs in cancer research06 November 2023Sebastian Pomplun manages to reach proteins with drugs even where this was thought impossible. That is why he and his research group have been allowed...
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ENW grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO): Reversing antimicrobial resistance using bacteriophage30 October 2023“Is it possible to restore antibiotic sensitivity in resistant bacteria?” Dr. Tingjie Guo wondered. “Watch me and learn”, phage responded. Dr. Tingjie...
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'Satisfied students give me more fulfillment than getting a research grant'26 October 2023Imparting students with a critical attitude and cross-curricular skills. That is what Rawi Ramautar wants to strive for as the new programme director ...
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Master's student Nicole ter Laak wins KNMP Studentenprijs 202317 October 2023Biopharmaceutical sciences master's student Nicole ter Laak has won the KNMP Studentenprijs 2023. She wins the prize for her research project on dosin...
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Education that connects to market needs: new course for master’s students focuses on quality in drug development09 October 2023Immediately connect with the needs of industry with your master’s degree. The new course Practical Aspects of Quality Management in Pharma and Biotech...
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Organ failure caused by viruses, how does it work? Now there are methods to find out18 September 2023Dying from viral infection due to organ failure and blood loss: we still know little about how it can happen. Among other things, Huaqi Tang developed...
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EIC Pathfinder Challenge grant for research into autoreactive B cells in cardiovascular disease12 September 2023At the division of BioTherapeutics, Amanda Foks, Bram Slütter and Ilze Bot have obtained a €4 million research grant from the HORIZON 2022 EIC Pathfin...
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Oncode Accelerator launched: patients at the centre of innovative cancer drug development08 September 2023Providing each cancer patient with the right treatment remains a challenge. Oncode Accelerator aims to change this by innovating the way we develop ca...
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In conversation with the head of the rodent facility06 September 2023Before patients can take a pill, scientists often spend years in the lab developing and testing a candidate drug. That often includes experiments with...
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Gerard van Westen wins KNCV Gold Medal29 August 2023Gerard van Westen has received the KNCV Gold Medal, the most important Dutch award for chemists under 40. 'It's a huge honour,' says the professor of ...
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Biological Origami at molecular level: folding a single protein01 August 2023Human cells are protecting their proteins from unfolding and aggregating. That's what biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his team discovered after seve...
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New treatments for life-threatening disease sepsis12 July 2023Due to the increasing resistance to certain antibiotics, the life-threatening condition sepsis is becoming harder to treat. For her PhD project, Leide...