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EUFEPS Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award for Jara Bouma 03 June 2022
EUFEPS Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award for Jara Bouma
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Researchers tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria 06 May 2022
When a bacterium becomes more resistant to one antibiotic, it sometimes becomes more sensitive to another. To better understand this interaction, rese...
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Ad IJzerman 26 April 2022
Ad IJzerman, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacochemistry, was made a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 26 April. He was presented with...
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Drugs with fewer side effects through a collaboration between LACDR and PTS 30 March 2022
LACDR, the Leiden Institute for Drug Research, developed better tolerated excipients to prevent adverse effects related to the surface of nanosized dr...
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Combating antibiotic resistance together 24 March 2022
Antibiotic resistance is a common problem among patients. The European Project TIPAT trains pharmacologists, microbiologists and immunologists of six ...
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Leiden researchers join forces against tuberculosis 24 March 2022
About one and a half million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis. For thirty years, therapy with antibiotics has been the same, while it ...
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Is a cancer pill a matter of time? 21 February 2022
A cancer pill, preferably without severe side effects, is something we’d all welcome. Is it a matter of time before such a pill is a reality? We put t...
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Developing drugs with artificial intelligence 07 February 2022
Developing new drugs is a difficult process. With the aid of artificial intelligence, Pharmaceutical scientist Xuhan Liu has developed methods that ca...
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Drugging the undruggable: NWO Open Competition grant for Alireza Mashaghi 04 January 2022
Finding structure in disordered proteins and developing drugs for undruggable diseases: it might sound like mission impossible, but pharmacologist Ali...
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Leiden University strengthens its focus on Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry with seven new group leaders 31 December 2021
Tackling key challenges of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry to aid drug discovery is one of the focus areas of Leiden University. To this end,...
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Healthcare and population health: AI research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam 25 November 2021
‘Our health is the area that stands to gain most from artificial intelligence.’ The three universities in Zuid-Holland are helping make these gains. T...
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Bioprinting human tissues for drug testing 05 October 2021
Bioprinters that enable scientists to engineer complex tissues and organs. It sounds like science-fiction, but not for the scientists of the Alireza M...
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Combatting antibiotic resistance in a clever way 28 September 2021
When you become very good at one thing, that sometimes comes at the expense of something else. Such trade-offs also apply to bacteria. When becoming m...
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Improving the treatment of newborn babies with life-threatening sepsis 12 August 2021
Coen van Hasselt’s pharmacology group collaborated on a study recently published in the renowned Lancet Infectious Diseases. The international team ma...
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How do children's kidneys eliminate drugs? 09 August 2021
What dose of medicine do you give a child? That depends to a large extent on how quickly their kidneys remove the drug from the blood. For ethical rea...