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Five ERC Starting Grants for young researchers from Leiden 03 September 2019
The ERC has awarded a Starting Grant to five promising researchers from Leiden. Two are from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, one is fr...
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Young scientists meet up at Young Faculty of Science 14 August 2019
Being an assistant professor can be rather solitary. You often do not have your own research group and also you don't yet have the extensive network o...
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Sugarcoating the search for a new vaccine 01 August 2019
A vaccine based on sugar coats does have the potential to combat a multi-resistant staphylococcus. That is what Jeroen Codée and his colleagues from U...
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Sylvestre Bonnet receives an ERC grant for light-activated chemotherapy 25 July 2019
Chemist Sylvestre Bonnet has received a Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council (ERC). With the grant of 150,000 euros, Bonnet will ...
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A cobalt cage for proteins 17 July 2019
A new paramagnetic probe has been synthesized and applied to proteins.
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Hubertus Irth named Interim Dean of the Faculty of Science 09 July 2019
The Executive Board has appointed Professor Hubertus Irth as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. Professor Irth will take up ...
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Teaching synthetic molecules how to communicate 04 July 2019
Although Sander Wezenberg just started working in Leiden in March this year, he already managed to win a Vidi grant from NWO. Inspired by nature, Weze...
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SUNRISE initiative’s first stakeholder meeting 21 June 2019
Over 170 SUNRISE’s stakeholders gathered on June 17-18 at the Academy Palace of Brussels, in connection with the EU Sustainable Energy Week, as one o...
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Student team hopes to heal skin with squid protein 03 June 2019
Eleven ambitious Leiden students hope to heal burns with a special substance from squid teeth. They are taking part in the international iGEM competit...
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Non-adiabatic effects may substantially affect rate of reaction relevant to Haber-Bosch catalysis 01 June 2019
Using N2 dissociation on Ru(0001) as a representative showcase (for catalysts employed in the Haber-Bosch process), we have shown for the first time t...
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We finally understand how oxygen reacts on platinum 27 May 2019
Platinum is a widely used catalyst, but its precise mechanism largely remains a mystery to scientists. Ludo Juurlink has now demonstrated for the firs...
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European collaboration shines a light on enzyme discovery for industry 27 May 2019
A European consortium has provided a disruptive technological breakthrough to allow the discovery and characterization of novel enzymes for industrial...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers 23 May 2019
From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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Only in America: chemist becomes America correspondent 29 April 2019
Chemistry, which is what Hans Klis studied in Leiden, is not what one might expect of a general journalist. ‘I’m a late bloomer,’ he says, despite hav...
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Yoga, inclusiveness and dilemma game at first Science PhD Day 26 April 2019
Morning yoga, having your resumé checked at the information market, or dancing for inclusiveness: just a small selection of the activities of the firs...