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With this algorithm, new medicines can be found more quickly 27 March 2024
Did he dare take a gamble with his PhD research? Jeroen Methorst didn’t have to think long about it. It could fail or turn out very well. The latter i...
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Fighting gliobastoma brain tumours with two grants 27 November 2023
Few researchers see potential in research on glioblastoma, an incurable brain tumour. Alexander Kros brought together colleagues who are up to the cha...
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€10.6 million for innovative toolboxes to tackle brain cancer 26 October 2023
Researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam (Uva) and Leiden together with the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute have received a €10,...
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Versatile antiviral proteins discovered with supercomputer 11 September 2023
A single tiny molecule that can destroy flu, corona, HIV and Zika viruses? Yes, it really does exist. An algorithm that mimics evolution has produced ...
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Four bold Faculty of Science researchers receive NWO XS grants 31 August 2020
Four scientists from the Faculty of Science will receive a grant of up to 50,000 euros in the Open Competition Domain Science - XS from science financ...
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Three Leiden Science projects receive computing time on national supercomputers 16 June 2020
A night sky of more than 40 petabytes in size, simulating young star clusters and understanding how the body inhibits viruses: three Leiden projects h...
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New carbon membrane generates a hundred times more power 09 March 2020
Leiden chemists have created a new ultrathin membrane only one molecule thick. The membrane can produce a hundred times more power from seawater than ...
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This is how a channel is formed between two organelles 25 February 2020
The channel through which two cell components exchange material appears to form at the edge of their contact surface, and not in the middle. This was ...
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ERC Starting Grant for Roxanne Kieltyka: stem cells in gels 15 November 2019
Chemist Roxanne Kieltyka has received an ERC Starting Grant of 2 million euros. In her lab, she creates gels that mimic the instructive material that ...
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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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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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EU awards COFUND grant for 18 Post-docs working on the Origin and Evolution of Life 02 April 2019
The European Union has awarded a COFUND grant to a consortium of researchers from the universities of Groningen, Leiden and Eindhoven for a collective...
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Roxanne Kieltyka in NRC: 'My dream is a gel for every cell' 07 January 2019
Roxanne Kieltyka was interviewed for NRC and talks about squaramides, cell cultures and Goldilocks.
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Droplet formation caught on camera 20 December 2018
Those pesky raindrops that get you wet on your way to work, are formed high up in the sky from clouds of water vapour. The process of nucleation descr...
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Cutting and pasting with graphene 10 December 2018
To date it has proved very difficult to convert the promises of the miracle material graphene into practical applications. Amedeo Bellunato, PhD candi...