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Organ failure caused by viruses, how does it work? Now there are methods to find out 18 September 2023
Dying 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 disease 12 September 2023
At 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 development 08 September 2023
Providing 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 facility 06 September 2023
Before 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 Medal 29 August 2023
Gerard 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 protein 01 August 2023
Human 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 sepsis 12 July 2023
Due to the increasing resistance to certain antibiotics, the life-threatening condition sepsis is becoming harder to treat. For her PhD project, Leide...
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Rawi Ramautar new Programme Director of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences bachelor’s program 06 July 2023
Rawi 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 resistance 05 July 2023
Phage 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 diseases 13 June 2023
Marlien 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 discovery 23 May 2023
There 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 pressure 18 April 2023
Professor 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 cannabis 23 March 2023
Chronic 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 Materials 22 March 2023
Complex 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 spread 03 March 2023
In 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...