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From discovery to business: 'In the lab, we often don't realise that we are working to help an immense number of patients' 06 October 2022
'It gave our team a big boost to hear that our work was valuable,' says medical chemist Elmer Maurits about the moment they won the Venture Challenge....
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How chemist Marc Tijhuis left business to change the world 15 September 2022
Halfway through his career alumnus Marc Tijhuis made a radical change: he left the corporate world to join the global battle against waste with the In...
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Iprotics Wins the Venture Challenge Spring 2022 12 September 2022
The winner of the 2022 Spring edition of the NWO Venture Challenge was announced during the Dutch Biotech Event. The innovative startup Iprotics has d...
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Marco van Eijk new OD of Life Science & Technology 01 September 2022
As of 1 September, Marco van Eijk has been appointed Director of Education of the bachelor's programme Life Science & Technology. He succeeds Marcellu...
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Small molecule prevents tumour cells from spreading 27 July 2022
Leiden chemists, together with colleagues at the University of York (UK) and Technion (Israel) have discovered a small, sugar-like molecule that maint...
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Tunnel vision alarm in the search for more efficient hydrogen cells 08 July 2022
A tenacious postdoc researcher persuaded Professor Marc Koper to research the oxygen reduction reaction. In Koper's eyes, there was little of interest...
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‘It’s important that people are happy in their work’ 06 July 2022
As Director of Education, Marcellus Ubbink learned to work together with many different people. For him, the social aspects are one of the key areas i...
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Antibiotics of the future: looking for a new way to kill bacteria 04 July 2022
Current antibiotics only address very few target proteins in bacteria to kill them. Researchers know that there are more possible target proteins to t...
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Marcellus Ubbink new Scientific Director of the LIC institute 23 June 2022
As of 1 July, Marcellus Ubbink is the new Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute for Chemistry. He will succeed Hermen Overkleeft, who led the in...
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Sander van Kasteren: from molecule builder to Professor of Chemical Immunology 15 June 2022
Sander van Kasteren only noticed some small, subtle changes since he was appointed professor on 1 May. Still, he has to get used to the idea, even th...
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Breakthrough artificial photosynthesis comes closer 31 May 2022
Imagine we could do what green plants can do: photosynthesis. Then we could satisfy our enormous energy needs with deep-green hydrogen and climate-neu...
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How Oncode-PACT is bringing new cancer medicines closer with 325 million in Growth Fund money 18 May 2022
How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes ...
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National Growth Fund invests many millions in faster and more sustainable (cancer) drug development 14 April 2022
On 14 April, the National Growth Fund awarded million euros in grants to two consortia in which Leiden's science faculty is involved. Pharma-NL will r...
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From lab discovery to a new drug: the Venture Challenge makes it possible 14 April 2022
A breakthrough from the PhD research of medical chemist Elmer Maurits may help patients with autoimmune diseases and blood cancer in the future. But b...
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Electrochemistry for renewable energy 29 March 2022
Imagine we could convert the greenhouse gas CO2 into synthetic fuels using sustainable energy. This would enable us to reduce the amount of CO2 and at...