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Sensing drug responses of single cells using optical tweezers12 April 2018Light 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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ELN Update12 April 2018The implementation of the ELN system is proceeding. Leyla Dellabianca has performed a great deal in establishing the environment in which the current ...
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PhD students LACDR won popular vote of the audience at the ASCPT annual meeting in Orlando, Florida12 April 2018Sinziana Cristea, Michiel van Esdonk, Bas Goulooze, Rob van Wijk, and Linda Aulin (not in picture), five PhD students from Systems Biomedicine and Pha...
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Seventeen million for Dutch X-omics Initiative12 April 2018The Dutch X-omics Initiative has received seventeen million euros from NWO as part of the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Infrastructure. Leiden Univ...
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How to easily measure your health26 March 2018Easily detecting chemical substances that indicate whether or not someone is ill, or measuring how healthy the environment is, and directly linking th...
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Leiden PhD team in finals international pharmacological competition22 March 2018A team of five PhD students from Leiden University is in the running for first prize in the Pharmacometrics Skills Competition. In a drug development ...
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De Lange appointed Professor of Predictive pharmacology14 March 2018As of 1 March 2018, Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de Lange has been appointed as Professor of Predictive pharmacology at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Re...
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Female talent in the spotlight07 March 2018The representation of women in science is improving, also at the Faculty of Science. On 8 March – International Women's Day – we highlight the work of...
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Discoverer of the Year bridges science and medicine14 February 2018Fascinated by science since high school, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is driven to explore new ways of thinking in medicine. With a strong academic network...
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Altering the appearance of macrophages to prevent atherosclerosis08 February 2018It might be possible to prevent atherosclerosis by changing the appearance of macrophages, cells of the immune system that for example digest foreign ...
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Leiden breakthrough in research on nanotherapy29 January 2018Nanoparticles that transport medicines to a specific part of the human body are usually broken down in the liver prematurely. Jeroen Bussmann from Lei...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 201709 January 2018With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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NWO awards funding for LACDR research project to develop novel engineering approaches to study cancer immunity22 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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Immune system important in atherosclerosis18 December 2017The immune system plays an important role in the development of atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of cardiovascular diseases. Thomas van der Heijd...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year14 December 2017Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...