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Pharmacologist Rob van Wijk is highlighted author of the month 26 September 2019
Pharmacologist Rob van Wijk is the Highlighted Trainee Author in the October 2019 issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. ...
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26 million for research into the impact of non-genetic factors on health 30 August 2019
Who will be affected by certain chronic diseases, and who will not? For 30 percent that depends on heredity factors, whereas no less than seventy perc...
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Bas Goulooze wins prestigious prize for research withdrawal symptoms in children 15 July 2019
Pharmacometrist Bas Goulooze has won the prestigious Lewis Sheiner Student Session award. He received the prize of 300 euros at the annual conference ...
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€8.5m for research into healthy ageing and vitality 25 April 2019
A large multidisciplinary team of experts on ageing has secured over €8.5m for a major study of which factors and solutions promote healthy ageing and...
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The Mastermind approach to brain research 19 March 2019
The brain is a complex organ, and researching medicine to treat brain disorders is equally if not more complex. Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de Lange, Profess...
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‘Test medicines after five days’ 05 March 2019
What is the best method and time to test the effectiveness of medicines? PhD student Rob van Wijk of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LAC...
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Detecting diseases with molecules in the body 19 February 2019
Is it possible to diagnose diseases using molecular switches? The new international consortium LogicLab will address this question. Leiden chemist Syl...
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‘Take medicine target saturation into account’ 25 January 2019
Not taking into account the saturation of drug targets can lead to wrong conclusions about the duration of a drug's action. This is what former PhD ca...
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Rob van Wijk has won the oral presentations of the National PhD Competition during the FIGON Dutch Medicine Days 09 October 2018
He presented his PhD research entitled “Kick-starting drug development; translational systems pharmacology using innovative zebrafish experiments and ...
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Successful LACDR Spring symposium 2018 14 September 2018
On May 3rd, we had a successful LACDR Spring symposium. Traditionally the Spring symposium is an important platform for our PhD’s. We have highlightin...
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MICA-mediated immunity: a new opportunity for improving corneal graft survival 14 September 2018
Corneal transplantation is one of the most common human organ transplantations worldwide. Although the 1-year survival rate is as high as 90%, more th...
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Diagnosing patients with the help of statistical physics 26 April 2018
Doctors are there to diagnose and treat people. But sometimes a diagnosis can’t be made or doctors differ in opinion. Luckily, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari...
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Innovative approach to antibiotic resistance 26 April 2018
Resistance to antibiotics is a major problem in health care. Thanks to a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund and the LUF, pharmacologist dr. Coen van H...
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Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics 12 April 2018
In the field of metabolomics, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of h...
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Sensing drug responses of single cells using optical tweezers 12 April 2018
Light can be used to apply forces on single cells. Focused lasers have been used by physicists to tweeze particles and to manipulate them. These so ca...