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Improving painkiller dosing in the clinic 25 November 2022Children, cardiac surgery patients or people who are obese. How can we improve the dosing of painkillers for these patients? Hospital pharmacist Sjoer...
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Children become bacteria to learn about antibiotics 21 November 2022Last Friday the global Antibiotics Awareness Week begun: an entire week dedicated to antibiotic use. Antibiotics researchers from the LACDR therefore ...
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Developing new therapies to fight muscle disease 26 September 2022Biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his collaborators are taking up the fight against muscular dystrophy: genetic disorders that cause muscle weakness. ...
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Researchers tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria 06 May 2022When 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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Combating antibiotic resistance together 24 March 2022Antibiotic 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 2022About 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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Drugging the undruggable: NWO Open Competition grant for Alireza Mashaghi 04 January 2022Finding structure in disordered proteins and developing drugs for undruggable diseases: it might sound like mission impossible, but pharmacologist Ali...
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Bioprinting human tissues for drug testing 05 October 2021Bioprinters 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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Improving the treatment of newborn babies with life-threatening sepsis 12 August 2021Coen 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 2021What 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...
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Master projects continue thanks to lab automation 09 August 2021The 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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Virtual children help prevent withdrawal syndrome in real children 25 May 2021When 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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How do you determine the right medicine dosage for a child? 16 April 2021What’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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‘Looking back, this past year will be a very important period in my life’ 01 February 2021At 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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Four bold Faculty of Science researchers receive NWO XS grants 31 August 2020Four 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...