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New measuring method facilitates drug research29 May 2015
Leiden chemical biologists led by Dr Mario van der Stelt have developed a method to facilitate the search for new drugs. This method has allowed them ...
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Marc Koper appointed Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry13 May 2015Marc Koper has been selected as one of the six new fellows in 2015 of the International Society of Electrochemistry.
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Hermen Overkleeft wins the 2015 Jeremy Knowles Award07 May 2015Prof. Hermen Overkleeft has been awarded the 2015 Jeremy Knowles Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his innovative and insightful development...
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A chemical connection that affects your immune system13 April 2015
A group of chemists, that includes Sander van Kasteren and Hermen Overkleeft, has discovered that azides, a certain type of chemical compound, can det...
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European roadmap for graphene applications in science and technology24 February 2015More than 60 European researchers and industry partners have set out their roadmap for the application of graphene in marketed products. Leiden chemis...
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4 Vici awards for Leiden researchers13 February 2015Chemist Alexander Kros and astronomer Joop Schaye are two of the four Leiden researchers who have been awarded a Vici as part of NWO's Innovation Rese...
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Anthe Janssen receives Unilever Research Prize 201401 December 2014Anthe Janssen graduated ‘summa cum laude’ for the master’s programme Chemistry.He used NMR methods to gain insight in the syntheses and behavior of bi...
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Reading through proteins with graphene: NWO Vidi grant awarded to Dr. Grégory Schneider16 June 2014While there are numerous and extremely advanced methods to sequence the genome, only a few methods exist to sequence the proteome. The Vidi project of...
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Marc Koper wins Carl Wagner Memorial Award 201319 September 2013Chemist Prof. Marc Koper was awarded the Carl Wagner Memorial Award of the Electrochemical Society.
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Mario van der Stelt and Laura Heitman have been awarded an NWO ECHO-STIP grant28 June 2013
On Friday May 3rd 2013 NWO has announced that Dr. Mario van der Stelt, Division of Bio-Organic Synthesis (LIC) and Dr. Laura Heitman, Division of Medi...
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LIC welcomes new Chinese CSC PhD students24 October 2012New Chinese CSC PhD’s are welcomed at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry. On the 28th of September 2012 a three week introduction program started espec...
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Substantial investment in Leiden centre for NMR spectroscopy19 June 2012
Paramagnetism. An obscure occult practice? No. It’s one of the newest scientific methods for mapping the behaviour of proteins with great precision. M...
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New funding for advanced microscopy using gold nanorods28 November 2011
A consortium of researchers from the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), and the Leiden Institute of Chemistry ...
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Dick Stufkens Prijs 2010 awarded to chemist Niels Elders18 October 2010The Dick Stufkens Prijs 2010 is awarded to Dr. Niels Elders. The prize is given by the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry for his Ph.D. th...
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Two young chemists win Marie Curie subsidy26 January 2010The Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) is to be joined by a further two talented young chemists. Bela Bode and Michele Pavanello have each won a Mari...