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The body's own marijuana as inspiration for drug research19 October 2018Endocannabinoids - the body's own marijuana - are promising departure points for drug research. Professor of Molecular Physiology Mario van der Stelt ...
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Is Michael Meijer the Smartest Chemist of the Netherlands?09 October 2018He is occupied with the home stretch of his promotion. But in between, there is another challenge: Michael Meijer is going through to the finals of ‘T...
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First Leiden Science Family Day: glitter gel, virtual reality and ice-cold clouds09 October 2018The first Leiden Science Family Day on Saturday 6 October was a great success. During the ‘Weekend of Science’ more than 700 visitors, including 350 c...
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Collaboration between experimentalists and theoreticians is HOT11 September 2018A recent collaborative paper between researchers from the Theoretical Chemistry & Catalysis and Surface Chemistry groups has been chosen by the renown...
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Anthe Janssen wins the YMCS Public's Choice Prize10 September 2018Anthe Janssen, a PhD student in the Molecular Physiology research group of Prof. Mario van der Stelt, has been awarded the Public's Choice Prize for B...
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Roxanne Kieltyka interviewed by Nemo Kennislink07 September 2018Chemist Roxanne Kieltyka has been interviewed by Nemo Kennislink in the Dutch article: "Stukjes weefsel kweken is nog heel lastig"
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Double success at the EMBL Chemical Biology Conference06 September 2018Thomas Bakkum en Tom van der Wel, two PhD candidates from the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, have both won poster prizes at the EMBL Chemical Biology ...
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Roxanne Kieltyka elected as one of Talented 12 in chemistry28 August 2018Leiden chemist Roxanne Kieltyka is part of the 2018 Talented 12 list of the American Chemical Society. That was announced by the journal Chemical & En...
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science15 August 2018Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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A step closer to sustainable energy from seawater10 August 2018The research group headed by Leiden chemist Marc Koper has discovered a catalyst that minimizes the production of chlorine gas during salt water elect...
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Profiling programme about body’s own marijuana brings institutes together12 July 2018Bringing together institutes and research groups, how do you do that? The Faculty of Science set up a joint research theme and financed three PhD posi...
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Marc Koper new President International Society of Electrochemistry03 July 2018Marc Koper, Professor of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, has been elected as President Elect of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). ...
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Irene Groot receives Vidi grant: looking at catalysts at atomic scale01 June 2018Catalysts are indispensable in everyday life. We know what they do and more or less how they do it, but we still lack a fundamental understanding abou...
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Vidis for nine Leiden researchers01 June 2018Nine talented Leiden researchers have been awarded a Vidi subsidy by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Vidis are intended fo...
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Scientists have morals too20 April 2018A group of early career scientists have written a code of ethics through an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Chemist and co-author Sander van K...