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MasterMinds Challenge named best educational innovation16 February 2022The Master of Medicine at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has won the national biennial award for best educational innovation in medical teach...
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Developing drugs with artificial intelligence07 February 2022Developing new drugs is a difficult process. With the aid of artificial intelligence, Pharmaceutical scientist Xuhan Liu has developed methods that ca...
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Drugging the undruggable: NWO Open Competition grant for Alireza Mashaghi04 January 2022Finding structure in disordered proteins and developing drugs for undruggable diseases: it might sound like mission impossible, but pharmacologist Ali...
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Leiden University strengthens its focus on Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry with seven new group leaders31 December 2021Tackling key challenges of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry to aid drug discovery is one of the focus areas of Leiden University. To this end,...
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These Science students excelled and won a KHMW Young Talent Prize06 December 2021No fewer than seven Leiden FWN students received a Young Talent Award from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences on Monday, 29 November. Mark van den Bo...
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Healthcare and population health: AI research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam25 November 2021‘Our health is the area that stands to gain most from artificial intelligence.’ The three universities in Zuid-Holland are helping make these gains. T...
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These eleven Leiden Science researchers are among the most highly cited19 November 2021Eleven researchers of the Faculty of Science are on the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list of Clarivate Analytics. Only 0.1 per cent of researchers ar...
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Pharma-NL application submitted to National Growth Fund08 November 2021The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) submitted Pharma-NL to the R&D program of the National Growth Fund, a 20 billion euro program of the D...
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What makes us ill?01 November 2021Genes predict whether you have a propensity for an illness but environmental factors often have the last word: nutrition, air pollution, lifestyle, st...
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LACDR EMA Lunchtalk29 October 2021On Friday the 29th of October, LACDR presented highlights of its research and teaching program during an online Lunchtime Talk session at the European...
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Bioprinting human tissues for drug testing05 October 2021Bioprinters that enable scientists to engineer complex tissues and organs. It sounds like science-fiction, but not for the scientists of the Alireza M...
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Combatting antibiotic resistance in a clever way28 September 2021When you become very good at one thing, that sometimes comes at the expense of something else. Such trade-offs also apply to bacteria. When becoming m...
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Publication on the design of multifunctionalized nanoparticles10 September 2021Despite considerable progress in the design of multifunctionalized nanoparticles (NPs) that selectively target specific cell types, their systemic app...
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In Memoriam professor Wim Jiskoot (1961-2021)23 August 2021Afgelopen zondagavond, 22 augustus, is na een kort ziekbed onze zeer gewaardeerde collega professor Wim Jiskoot, Hoogleraar Technologie van toedienin...
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In Memoriam professor Wim Jiskoot (1961-2021)23 August 2021
Afgelopen zondagavond, 22 augustus, is na een kort ziekbed onze zeer gewaardeerde collega professor Wim Jiskoot, Hoogleraar Technologie van toediening...