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Five Veni awards for Leiden Science researchersFive promising researchers at Leiden's Faculty of Science have received a Veni award from NWO. They can use the award - of up to 250,000 euros - to ca...
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Philanthropist Dr Raymond Sackler has passed away (97)American philanthropist Dr Raymond Sackler has died at the age of 97. Dr Sackler was a psychiatrist and developer of medicines, with which he made his...
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Nanoparticles: a wonder material with a downside?Minute nanoparticles are bringing about a completely new industrial revolution. But little is known about the possible dangers to the food chain. An i...
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Cum laude on understanding catalysts under extreme conditionsPhysical chemist Rik Mom developed a revolutionary way to investigate catalysts in action in detail. For this work he received the distinction cum lau...
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Mario van der Stelt and Annelot van Esbroeck win awards at international conference in CanadaMario van der Stelt (Head of the department of Molecular Physiology at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry) has received the Young Investigator Award fr...
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‘Freedom makes me a better chemist’Professor of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Marc Koper has been appointed as member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW)....
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New cellular imaging paves way for cancer treatmentA new technique using fluorescent imaging to track the actions of enzymes might aid drug design for new anti-cancer, inflammation and kidney disease t...
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Various media on drug research Mario van der SteltMedia in the Netherlands and abroad reported extensively about the drug research led by Leiden chemist Mario van der Stelt. In this research, Van der ...
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Champion in headwind and predictionsIt is a stormy Sunday afternoon, with gusts of a whopping 110 kilometres per hour. Chemist Teun Sweere defies the enormous headwind on his city bike, ...
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Ten years ERC: Sylvestre Bonnet kills cancer with lightIn 2013, Sylvestre Bonnet received an ERC Starting Grant to kill cancer with molecules that can be activated by light. Two postdocs and three PhD stud...
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Experimental drug BIA 10-2474 deactivates proteins in human nerve cells
At high doses, drug candidate BIA 10-2474 binds not only to the protein that it targets, but to other proteins as well. It thus deactivates proteins t...
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Former Chemistry PhD student Tiddo Mooibroek nominated for New Scientist Talent prizeFormer Chemistry PhD student Tiddo Mooibroek is one of the 25 nominees for the title New Scientist Science Talent 2017. Nobel prize winner Ben Feringa...
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Leiden University third in sustainability rankingLeiden University is in third place in the SustainaBul sustainability ranking. Students from eleven research universities and nine universities of app...
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Kistemaker obtains PhD cum laude on production of ground-breaking moleculesA month ago it was Marc Baggelaar, and now Hans Kistemaker too has obtained his PhD cum laude at the Leiden Institute for Chemistry (LIC). ‘He has ma...
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Hermen Overkleeft new Scientific Director of chemistry institute LICAs of July 1, Professor of Bio-organic Synthesis Hermen Overkleeft will be appointed as the Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (...