In April, the X-omics initiative was granted 17 million euros from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research. The subsidy is part of the National...

Laura Heitman has been awarded a VIDI grant for her innovative drug research. Heitman strives to optimize a drug’s binding kinetics at its target in o...

Laura Heitman has been awarded a VIDI grant for her innovative drug research. Heitman strives to optimize drug’s binding kinetics in order to ultimate...

Nine talented Leiden researchers have been awarded a Vidi subsidy by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Vidis are intended fo...

During the annual LACDR Spring Symposium, the audience chose PhD student Rob van Wijk as best speaker. Furthermore, six PhD students won a poster priz...

Resistentie tegen antibiotica is een groot probleem in de gezondheidszorg. Dankzij een beurs van het Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds kan farmacoloog Co...

Doctors are there to diagnose and treat people. But sometimes a diagnosis can’t be made or doctors differ in opinion. Luckily, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari...

Resistance to antibiotics is a major problem in health care. Thanks to a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund and the LUF, pharmacologist dr. Coen van H...

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...

Alireza Mashaghi and his research team have created a new framework to understand shapes of proteins and DNA. With this framework, many diseases can b...

On the 1st of April, Bob van de Water reached his 25 years work anniversary within the University of Leiden. On the 3rd of April Hubertus Irth had the...

Laura Heitman

From 27th February – 1st March 2018 the LACDR Introductory Course on Drug Research was held in Kasteel Oud Poelgeest.

Immune system defends our body against pathogens and cancerous cells, but excessive immunity can in turn lead to tissue damages and diseases. For exam...

In the field of metabolomics, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of h...