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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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‘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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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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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...
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International media report on Leiden dosage app for corona patients 30 March 2020
Coen van Hasselt's research group quickly produced an app that enables doctors to determine the correct dosage of commonly used medicines for corona p...
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App helps doctors find the right dose of corona medication 25 March 2020
Leiden researchers have developed an app that doctors can use to more easily determine the right dosage of medication for corona patients. At the mome...
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The QSPainRelief consortium will improve the treatment of chronic pain 28 February 2020
The €6.24 million EU-funded research project QSPainRelief has kicked off. The project aims to help patients suffering from chronic pain with novel, pe...
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Honorary Doctor Elizabeth de Lange honoured in Uppsala 05 February 2020
Professor Elizabeth de Lange was honoured on 31 January by the University of Uppsala, which appointed her Honorary Doctor at the end of 2019. During t...
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Ebola-on-a-chip: Leiden scientists against a fatal virus 03 February 2020
Although Ebola is a virus with significant fatality rates, we still lack effective countermeasures to battle it. To change this, Alireza Mashaghi and ...
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Mathematical model predicts drug concentration in the brain 17 December 2019
Do medicines arrive in the right amount at the right spot in our brain? By making a model that depicts our brain in small 'brain blocks', Esmée Vendel...
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Pharmacologist Elizabeth de Lange receives Honorary Doctorate in Pharmacy from Uppsala University 12 November 2019
Professor of Predictive Pharmacology Elizabeth de Lange has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Pharmacy of Uppsala University. She wil...
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Prestigious award for pharmacologist Meindert Danhof 09 October 2019
Meindert Danhof is the 2019 recipient of the Høst Madsen Medal for his pioneering work in systems pharmacology. He received the award on 22 September ...