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Rawi Ramautar new Programme Director of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences bachelor’s program06 July 2023Rawi Ramautar will be the new Programme Director of the bachelor of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences starting September 1. The appointment is for four year...
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Grant Elise Mathilde Fund & LUF: Using virus to kill bacteria: design of innovative phage-antibiotic combination treatments to combat antimicrobial resistance05 July 2023Phage therapy is a novel yet unmatured therapeutic approach in the face of the crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Dr. Tingjie Guo received a gr...
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Using low sample volumes to better understand brain diseases13 June 2023Marlien van Mever delved into the analysis of tiny samples, cerebrospinal fluid from transgenic mouse models for example. She validated methods that c...
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Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery23 May 2023There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those mo...
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Horizon Europe grant for research into personalised treatment for high blood pressure18 April 2023Professor Thomas Hankemeier and his international research team HYPERMARKER have received a 10m-euro grant from Horizon Europe and UK Research and Inn...
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The molecular secrets of medicinal cannabis23 March 2023Chronic pain, nausea or vomiting due to chemotherapy. If you suffer from such ailments, medicinal cannabis can be a godsend. Though a downside is that...
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Publication from the Barz Lab in Advanced Materials22 March 2023Complex Structures Made Simple - Continuous Flow Production of Core Cross-Linked Polymeric Micelles for Paclitaxel Pro-Drug-Delivery
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How oxygen deprivation causes cancer cells to spread03 March 2023In breast cancer, metastasis rather than the primary tumour is the cause of death. A lack of oxygen in the tumour cells promotes this metastasis, acco...
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Website full of interactive videos to improve your lab education27 February 2023To better prepare students for their laboratory education, a team of education experts and students have created a collection of interactive videos. A...
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Why you should publish negative data22 February 2023As a bachelor student of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences, Femke Vlaswinkel wrote a research proposal she was allowed to carry out in her master’s BPS. Fem...
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Joining hands to advance Dutch microscopy20 February 2023Advanced microscopy to understand life and fight disease: that’s the goal of the new NL-BioImaging network that will develop and integrate state-of-th...
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Why arteriosclerosis looks like an autoimmune disease30 January 2023Arteriosclerosis bears great similarities to autoimmune diseases. Researchers from Leiden University show this in a new study they published in the re...
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Cells with stress: predicting drug-induced liver and kidney damage26 January 2023How can we prevent drug-induced liver and kidney damage? PhD candidates Marije Niemeijer and Lukas Wijaya investigated what happens in the cells durin...
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Best presentation award for Andreea Nadaban at European congress03 January 2023
A starring role for PhD candidate Andreea Nadaban during the annual meeting of the European Epidermal Barrier Research Network. With her talk about th...
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Nobel Prize winner visited Leiden: 'We have hosted a scientific rockstar'08 December 2022On 28 September the famous chemists Carolyn Bertozzi visited Leiden University to speak at the LED3 seminar. Just one week later, she was announced wi...