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How oxygen deprivation causes cancer cells to spread 03 March 2023
In breast cancer, metastasis rather than the primary tumour is the cause of death. A lack of oxygen in the tumour cells promotes this metastasis, acco...
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Cells with stress: predicting drug-induced liver and kidney damage 26 January 2023
How can we prevent drug-induced liver and kidney damage? PhD candidates Marije Niemeijer and Lukas Wijaya investigated what happens in the cells durin...
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Safety testing of chemicals without laboratory animals 08 June 2021
Testing chemical substances without using animals. It seems a utopia, but a European team is going to develop a way to make this a reality. The RISK-H...
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NWO grant for research facility into the impact of environmental factors on health 21 May 2021
What is the influence of non-hereditary factors on our health, such as lifestyle, diet and exposure to harmful substances? The Exposome-Scan project, ...
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Assessing the safety of chemicals and medicines without laboratory animals 02 December 2020
One of the holy grails of drug research is to be able to assess the safety of chemicals and pharmaceuticals without using laboratory animals. Research...
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Successful LACDR Spring symposium 2018 14 September 2018
On May 3rd, we had a successful LACDR Spring symposium. Traditionally the Spring symposium is an important platform for our PhD’s. We have highlightin...
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Erik Danen appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery 24 April 2018
As of April 1, 2018, Erik Danen has been appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR...
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Engineering innate immunity for therapy 12 April 2018
Immune system defends our body against pathogens and cancerous cells, but excessive immunity can in turn lead to tissue damages and diseases. For exam...
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Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics 12 April 2018
In the field of metabolomics, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of h...
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Sensing drug responses of single cells using optical tweezers 12 April 2018
Light can be used to apply forces on single cells. Focused lasers have been used by physicists to tweeze particles and to manipulate them. These so ca...
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NWO awards funding for LACDR research project to develop novel engineering approaches to study cancer immunity 22 December 2017
As part of the HTSM2017 funding program, the LACDR division for Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology received 1.08 million euros for a research projec...
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Successful symposium Present-day Practicals. 12 October 2017
On the 29th of August 2017 Janine Geerling and Marjo de Graauw, together with their collaborating partners at Kryt B.V., organized a national symposiu...
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Looking back at the LACDR Spring Symposium 2016 26 May 2016
Tuesday May 24th, the LACDR Annual Spring Symposium was held.
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How killer -T-cells migrate towards virus-infected cells 01 December 2015
Joost Beltman (LACDR, Leiden University) has provided novel insights in the way T cells migrate towards virus-infected cells. This was accomplished b...
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Leiden researchers discover genes that affect spread of breast cancer 18 March 2015
Researchers at Leiden University have mapped genes that cause breast cancer cells to migrate. The Leiden toxicologists Professor Bob van de Water, Dr ...