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Master projects continue thanks to lab automation 09 August 2021
The fact that corona has created a wave of creativity is evident when walking around in the lab of pharmacologist Coen van Hasselt from the LACDR. Sud...
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Safety testing of chemicals without laboratory animals 08 June 2021
Testing chemical substances without using animals. It seems a utopia, but a European team is going to develop a way to make this a reality. The RISK-H...
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Virtual children help prevent withdrawal syndrome in real children 25 May 2021
When children wean off from heavy medication, they often experience withdrawal symptoms. The severity of these symptoms is often difficult to predict....
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NWO grant for research facility into the impact of environmental factors on health 21 May 2021
What is the influence of non-hereditary factors on our health, such as lifestyle, diet and exposure to harmful substances? The Exposome-Scan project, ...
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How do you determine the right medicine dosage for a child? 16 April 2021
What’s the right dosage of medication for children? Assistant professor Elke Krekels and her colleagues discovered that for some medicines, you can de...
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Bio-inspired engineering to fight emerging viral diseases 11 March 2021
Leiden Scientists are getting prepared to tackle future epidemics. A group of scientists led by Dr. Alireza Mashaghi has used innovative engineering a...
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Lindsey Burggraaff wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award 10 March 2021
Data scientist Lindsey Burggraaff has won the second edition of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award. She receives the prize for her research ...
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Erik Danen part of NWO Perspectief grant for organ-on-chip 10 March 2021
A consortium of research groups, including that of LACDR professor Erik Danen, will use an NWO Perspective grant of nearly five million euros to build...
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‘Looking back, this past year will be a very important period in my life’ 01 February 2021
At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy 25 November 2020
Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our moder...
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Two times KNMP Student Award for Leiden students 13 November 2020
This year, two Leiden master students will be awarded a KNMP Student Award. Both Wisse van Os and Jip Linthorst will receive 1,000 euros from the Roya...
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Steering the immune system with liposomes 28 September 2020
Liposomes – nano-sized spheres composed of fatty molecules – are very promising for vaccination. Bio-pharmaceutical scientist Naomi Benne discovered t...
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Four bold Faculty of Science researchers receive NWO XS grants 31 August 2020
Four scientists from the Faculty of Science will receive a grant of up to 50,000 euros in the Open Competition Domain Science - XS from science financ...
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Three LUF grants for talented Leiden Science researchers 25 August 2020
Fighting against cancer, antibiotic resistance and disposable plastics: Ahmed Ali, Fredj Ben Bdira, and Valerio Barbarossa receive a LUF grant for the...
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Leiden scientists develop topological barcodes for folded molecules 25 August 2020
The team of Alireza Mashaghi at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research has found a way to determine and classify the shape of proteins. Their ne...