News
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science 15 August 2018
Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Tapping new markets for rapid DNA unraveller 19 July 2018
Researching DNA material for genetic disorders using the most powerful apparatus. This is what GenomeScan, a company on the Leiden Bio Science Park, d...
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Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia 19 July 2018
Laura Heitman is awarded the 2018 EFMC runner-up prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia
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Profiling programme about body’s own marijuana brings institutes together 12 July 2018
Bringing together institutes and research groups, how do you do that? The Faculty of Science set up a joint research theme and financed three PhD posi...
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New project funded to study Alzheimer's disease 02 July 2018
Researchers from Leiden University will develop a new approach to study the biomarkers of Alzeimer’s disease. This approach focusses on the molecular ...
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Rethinking drug discovery: Vidi grant for Laura Heitman 15 June 2018
Laura Heitman has been awarded a VIDI grant for her innovative drug research. Heitman strives to optimize a drug’s binding kinetics at its target in o...
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Vidis for nine Leiden researchers 01 June 2018
Nine talented Leiden researchers have been awarded a Vidi subsidy by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Vidis are intended fo...
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Diagnosing patients with the help of statistical physics 26 April 2018
Doctors are there to diagnose and treat people. But sometimes a diagnosis can’t be made or doctors differ in opinion. Luckily, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari...
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Innovative approach to antibiotic resistance 26 April 2018
Resistance to antibiotics is a major problem in health care. Thanks to a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund and the LUF, pharmacologist dr. Coen van H...
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Erik Danen appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery 24 April 2018
As of April 1, 2018, Erik Danen has been appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR...
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Shaping proteins to understand chaperone-related diseases 18 April 2018
Alireza Mashaghi and his research team have created a new framework to understand shapes of proteins and DNA. With this framework, many diseases can b...
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Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics 12 April 2018
In the field of metabolomics, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of h...
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Sensing drug responses of single cells using optical tweezers 12 April 2018
Light can be used to apply forces on single cells. Focused lasers have been used by physicists to tweeze particles and to manipulate them. These so ca...
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Seventeen million for Dutch X-omics Initiative 12 April 2018
The Dutch X-omics Initiative has received seventeen million euros from NWO as part of the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Infrastructure. Leiden Univ...
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How to easily measure your health 26 March 2018
Easily detecting chemical substances that indicate whether or not someone is ill, or measuring how healthy the environment is, and directly linking th...