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Drug development: how can we make it more efficient? 14 July 2015
It takes years to develop new medicines, from the test tube to trials in humans. During the process it often happens that a drug that seems promising ...
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New measuring method facilitates drug research 29 May 2015
Leiden chemical biologists led by Dr Mario van der Stelt have developed a method to facilitate the search for new drugs. This method has allowed them ...
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Marc Koper appointed Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry 13 May 2015
Marc Koper has been selected as one of the six new fellows in 2015 of the International Society of Electrochemistry.
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Hermen Overkleeft wins the 2015 Jeremy Knowles Award 07 May 2015
Prof. Hermen Overkleeft has been awarded the 2015 Jeremy Knowles Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his innovative and insightful development...
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A chemical connection that affects your immune system 13 April 2015
A group of chemists, that includes Sander van Kasteren and Hermen Overkleeft, has discovered that azides, a certain type of chemical compound, can det...
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European roadmap for graphene applications in science and technology 24 February 2015
More than 60 European researchers and industry partners have set out their roadmap for the application of graphene in marketed products. Leiden chemis...
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4 Vici awards for Leiden researchers 13 February 2015
Chemist Alexander Kros and astronomer Joop Schaye are two of the four Leiden researchers who have been awarded a Vici as part of NWO's Innovation Rese...
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Anthe Janssen receives Unilever Research Prize 2014 01 December 2014
Anthe Janssen graduated ‘summa cum laude’ for the master’s programme Chemistry.He used NMR methods to gain insight in the syntheses and behavior of bi...
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Reading through proteins with graphene: NWO Vidi grant awarded to Dr. Grégory Schneider 16 June 2014
While there are numerous and extremely advanced methods to sequence the genome, only a few methods exist to sequence the proteome. The Vidi project of...
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Marc Koper wins Carl Wagner Memorial Award 2013 19 September 2013
Chemist Prof. Marc Koper was awarded the Carl Wagner Memorial Award of the Electrochemical Society.
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Mario van der Stelt and Laura Heitman have been awarded an NWO ECHO-STIP grant 28 June 2013
On Friday May 3rd 2013 NWO has announced that Dr. Mario van der Stelt, Division of Bio-Organic Synthesis (LIC) and Dr. Laura Heitman, Division of Medi...
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LIC welcomes new Chinese CSC PhD students 24 October 2012
New Chinese CSC PhD’s are welcomed at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry. On the 28th of September 2012 a three week introduction program started espec...
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Substantial investment in Leiden centre for NMR spectroscopy 19 June 2012
Paramagnetism. An obscure occult practice? No. It’s one of the newest scientific methods for mapping the behaviour of proteins with great precision. M...
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New funding for advanced microscopy using gold nanorods 28 November 2011
A consortium of researchers from the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), and the Leiden Institute of Chemistry ...
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Dick Stufkens Prijs 2010 awarded to chemist Niels Elders 18 October 2010
The Dick Stufkens Prijs 2010 is awarded to Dr. Niels Elders. The prize is given by the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry for his Ph.D. th...