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With 30 million dollars, this consortium aims to tackle tuberculosis 17 April 2024
Thanks to a clever research method, progress is being made in the quest for better tuberculosis medications. Within an American consortium that receiv...
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Best poster award of the 5th QSPainRelief General Assembly meeting 31 January 2024
PhD candidate Divakar Budda (Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy) and Solen Gousset (UCLouvain) shared were the shared winners of the best p...
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Towards translation of CNS pharmacokinetics from mice to men 31 January 2024
PhD candidates Mohammed Saleh and Berfin Gülave (Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy) published their research paper on “Using the LeiCNS-PK...
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Review paper on the potential impact drug-metabolizing enzymes on brain exposure 31 January 2024
PhD candidate Mengxu Zhang (Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy) published a comprehensive and important review on “The potential impact of ...
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International Symposium on Circuit Topology Organized by Leiden University 31 January 2024
For the third consecutive year, LACDR organized the international symposium on topology, Circuit Topology III, on November 29, 2023. The event aimed t...
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Rethinking antibiotic therapy of urinary tract infections 31 January 2024
Suruchi Nepal, postdoc in the group of Coen van Hasselt at LACDR, was awarded an NWO XS project which aims to study the response to antibiotic treatme...
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Improving nature’s antibiotic 24 January 2024
'What nature made isn’t necessarily an optimized medicine to use in the human body,’ says Professor of Biological Chemistry Nathaniel Martin. That’s w...
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Reliable research with virtual patients 09 January 2024
The right medicine in the right dosage for every patient, that is something medical science aspires. 'Personalised medicine' is the term for that. But...
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Dutch Research Council Open Science Fund grants for five Leiden projects 18 December 2023
Five projects with a lead applicant from Leiden will receive an Open Science Fund grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The applications come f...
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How to determine medication dosages for premature babies 18 December 2023
Premature babies almost always require treatment with medication. Doctors usually determine the dosages based on data from children who were not born ...
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NWO-XS grants for two innovative research projects 12 December 2023
Two Leiden Science researchers received an NWO-XS grant for their research. Both projects are highly promising, but also high-risk. Macrophages that t...
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ENW grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO): Reversing antimicrobial resistance using bacteriophage 30 October 2023
“Is it possible to restore antibiotic sensitivity in resistant bacteria?” Dr. Tingjie Guo wondered. “Watch me and learn”, phage responded. Dr. Tingjie...
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Master's student Nicole ter Laak wins KNMP Studentenprijs 2023 17 October 2023
Biopharmaceutical sciences master's student Nicole ter Laak has won the KNMP Studentenprijs 2023. She wins the prize for her research project on dosin...
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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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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...