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Portraits Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot on Hartstichting.nl 21 February 2019
The Heart Foundation has portrayed researchers Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) who fight heart and b...
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Amanda Foks receives Dekker grant from Dutch Hartstichting 24 January 2019
Pharmacologist Amanda Foks is one of the ten talented scientists who received a Dekker grant from the Hartstichting. She receives €427,000 to find a w...
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Successful LACDR Spring symposium 2018 14 September 2018
On May 3rd, we had a successful LACDR Spring symposium. Traditionally the Spring symposium is an important platform for our PhD’s. We have highlightin...
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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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NWO awards funding for LACDR research project to develop novel engineering approaches to study cancer immunity 22 December 2017
As part of the HTSM2017 funding program, the LACDR division for Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology received 1.08 million euros for a research projec...
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Successful symposium Present-day Practicals. 12 October 2017
On the 29th of August 2017 Janine Geerling and Marjo de Graauw, together with their collaborating partners at Kryt B.V., organized a national symposiu...
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Publication PhD student Eva Kritikou accepted in Scientific Reports: 30 November 2016
A recent publication by Biopharmaceutics PhD-candidate Eva Kritikou has been accepted by the renowned scientific journal Scientific Reports.
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AAPS Fellowship Award for Professor Wim Jiskoot 15 November 2016
Wim Jiskoot has been honored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists as an AAPS Fellow.
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PhD Thesis: Development of human skin equivalents to unravel the impaired skin barrier in atopic dermatitis skin 23 September 2016
Recently, the PhD thesis of Lolu Danso Eweje appeared entitled ’Development of human skin equivalents to unravel the impaired skin barrier in atopic d...
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Amanda Foks receives prestigious Junior Postdoc fellowship 09 August 2016
Dr. Amanda Foks obtained a fellowship from the dr. E. Dekker-program for the project ' Can promotion of efferocytosis induce regression of atheroscler...
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Inhibition of MicroRNA-494 reduces carotid artery atherosclerotic lesion development and increases plaque stability 04 August 2016
Publication by: Anouk Wezel, Sabine Welten, Wida Razawy, Max Lagraauw, Margreet de Vries, Eveline Goossens, Martin Boonstra, Jaap Hamming, Ekambar Kan...
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CD11b+Gr-1+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells reduce atherosclerotic lesion development in LDLr deficient mi 04 August 2016
Publication by: Amanda Foks, Gijs van Puijvelde, Jolien Wolbert, Mara Kröner, Vanessa Frodermann, Thomas van der Heijden, Peter van Santbrink, Louis B...
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Looking back at the LACDR Spring Symposium 2016 26 May 2016
Tuesday May 24th, the LACDR Annual Spring Symposium was held.
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Tineke Berkers has won an award 24 November 2015
Tineke Berkers has won an award for outstanding contribution for her poster at the Gordon Research Conference at Waterville Valley, USA.
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Miranda van Eck inaugural lecture: detergent tablets for clean, fat-free blood vessels 08 September 2015
In her inaugural lecture on 11 September, Miranda van Eck, Professor of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Therapeutics, addressed her research related to d...