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Lindsey Burggraaff wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award10 March 2021Data scientist Lindsey Burggraaff has won the second edition of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award. She receives the prize for her research ...
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Erik Danen part of NWO Perspectief grant for organ-on-chip10 March 2021A consortium of research groups, including that of LACDR professor Erik Danen, will use an NWO Perspective grant of nearly five million euros to build...
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences16 February 2021The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists...
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Robert Rissmann appointed professor of Translational Dermatology at LACDR-CHDR08 February 2021Pharmacist-clinical pharmacologist Robert Rissmann has been appointed Professor of Translational Dermatology. This extraordinary professorship has bee...
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‘Looking back, this past year will be a very important period in my life’01 February 2021At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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Animal-free chemical safety testing with new technology ToxProfiler28 January 2021Toxys, Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center have agreed immediately to commercialise and also develop further the ToxProfiler techno...
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IBL and LACDR researchers win chemistry prize for Lorentz workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Natural Product Drug Discovery17 December 2020During the opening ceremony of the (online) CHAINS conference on 8 December it was announced that the workshop 'Artificial Intelligence for Natural Pr...
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Predicting and preventing Covid-19: 1 million euros for corona research17 December 2020How is it that some covid-19 patients are affected much worse than others? Can we predict beforehand which of them will develop critical symptoms Prof...
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The world's first Virtual Human Platform based exclusively on human biology10 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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LACDR graduations 202010 December 2020
Despite the unusual year, graduations still continued. We are well aware of the fact that at the start of your PhD track you had never imagined a grad...
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LACDR PhD introductory course on Drug Research10 December 2020
End of January 2021, the LACDR PhD Introductory Course on Drug Research 2021 for starting PhD candidates is scheduled.
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LACDR Fall Symposium 202004 December 2020On November 24, the annual LACDR Fall Symposium took place in a digital setting. With 199 attendees, the symposium was visited very well. The program ...
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Sebastiaan Goulooze has been awarded the classification 'cum laude' for his thesis04 December 2020On November 3, Sebastiaan Goulooze (SBP) successfully defended his PhD thesis and his work was awarded the classification “cum laude”. Under the super...
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Interview04 December 2020Gert Gooris
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Fenne Verheijen wins the Suzanne Hovinga Award 2019-202004 December 2020During the LACDR Fall Symposium the Suzanne Hovinga Award for ‘best master thesis’ was awarded to Fenne Verheijen for her master thesis entitled ‘Char...