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Leiden-developed drug candidate ready for final clinical trial phaseImpact 27 May 2025Bringing your drug candidates to patients is what many academic chemists dream about, but the road to this goal is long and bumpy. Now, Leiden small m...
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Three NWO Open Competition grants for Leiden scientistsGrant 12 May 2025Smart drug carriers, uneven cosmic expansion, and solar energy storage in molecules. These are the topics of three newly awarded NWO-XS grants to rese...
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Curious, not guided by role models: Kim Bonger appointed professor24 April 2025As of this month, Kim Bonger has been appointed Professor of Chemical Biology. As a first-generation academic, she’s especially grateful. ‘I wasn’t ex...
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Article from 1984 remains a hit: citation count passes 10,000Mijlpaal 16 April 2025It was already the most cited publication ever written at our faculty, but now a new milestone has been reached. Last month, a paper by emeritus profe...
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Chemistry as the key to medical innovationMilestone 31 March 2025Is it a coincidence that three chemists from the same department have each independently received a ZonMw grant? 'No,' the researchers agree in unison...
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In Memoriam Arne van der Gen06 March 2025On January 11, 2025, our esteemed colleague and emeritus professor Arne van der Gen passed away. Arne was a professor of Organic Chemistry from 1980 u...
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Finally solved: how the body's own marijuana spreads through the brain24 February 2025Since its discovery thirty years ago, it remained a mystery: how does the body’s own marijuana move between nerve cells in the brain? Mario van der St...
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New technology could make hard-to-recycle plastics recyclable18 February 2025Cookware handles, electrical plugs, brake pads. Unlike other plastics, these ‘thermosets’ cannot simply be melted down and reshaped, making them diffi...
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First time in the cortège: ‘I wanted to be part of it’450 jaar 11 February 2025Is my cap on straight? Where in the cortège will I be walking? These are some of the questions asked by professors joining the Dies Natalis procession...
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From research to practice: Leiden researchers awarded European grantImpact 03 February 2025Various Leiden researchers have been awarded a European grant to explore the commercial or societal potential of previous research.
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Cheaper, more accurate DNA sequencingDutch Research Council grant 03 February 2025A new graphene-based method could make for faster, cheaper and more accurate DNA sequencing, say a group of Leiden physicists and chemists. They have ...
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Cracking the code: why platinum electrodes corrode24 January 2025An atomic vandal has finally been caught! Scientists from Leiden University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Laboratory have uncovered the...
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Tirong Guo discovered materials that bring efficient artificial photosynthesis closer20 January 2025After hard work in the lab, Chemist Tirong Guo has developed a group of materials that provide a stable and efficient foundation for artificial photos...
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Grants for fundamental research in LeidenNWO Open Competition 18 December 2024Three fundamental research projects at Leiden in physics, chemistry and medical science have received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). T...
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How a bachelor’s student contributed to better chemical simulations09 December 2024Doğukan Yilmaz chose a study that aligned with his favourite subjects, and it paid off. For his bachelor thesis, he developed a new model to better pr...