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Two NWO ECHO grants for Leiden Chemistry28 January 2016Two excellent young chemists, Jeroen Codée and Sander van Kasteren, have received an ECHO grant for €260,000 from the Netherlands Organisation for Sci...
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Research Grant for tuning into photosynthesis08 January 2016Biophysicist Anjali Pandit has been awarded a FOM 'Projectruimte' research grant for her proposal ‘Tuning into the photosynthetic membrane with atomis...
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New substances inhibit inflammation in the brain07 January 2016Chemical biologists from Leiden, led by Dr Mario van der Stelt, have discovered substances that can reduce inflammation processes in the brain. This i...
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Discoverer of the Year, Best Dissertation and Education prize 201505 January 2016During the Faculty of Science New Year's reception, Daniël Rozen was named Discoverer of the year 2015. Nienke van der Marel and Koen van der Maaden b...
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Book: The Colours of Energy16 December 2015Huub de Groot is one of the 55 authors for the book The Colours of Energy. The book consists of Essays on the Future of Energy in Society in which lea...
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Reedijk Symposium 2015 - Guest Lecturers: Prof. Bas de Bruin & Prof. Dame Carol Robinson09 October 2015On Friday October 30th 2015 the sixth annual Jan Reedijk Symposium will be held. The main lectures of the day will be "Catalytic Radical-Type Transfor...
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Designing better catalysts using simple chemical concepts08 October 2015An international team of researchers, including Federico Calle-Vallejo of Leiden University’s Institute of Chemistry, have taken the atomic-scale desi...
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Dick Stufkens Prijs 2015 awarded to chemist Tatu Kumpulainen05 October 2015The Dick Stufkens Prijs for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has been awarded to Dr Tatu S. Kumpulain...
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Cost-effective catalyst converts CO2 into natural gas02 September 2015A discovery made in Leiden helps not only to make natural gas from CO2 but also to store renewable energy. Research by Professor Marc Koper and PhD st...
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Fat-free mayonnaise thanks to manipulation of surface tension11 August 2015
Aqueous solutions of proteins and carbohydrates separate into two parts with an extremely ‘soft’ boundary surface. The surface tension between these t...
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Research shows protein movement is important20 July 2015
Researchers led by Professor of Chemistry Marcellus Ubbink have recently published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) a...
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Fundamental research on optimal quality tin coatings14 July 2015Leiden Professor Marc Koper will be carrying out research on the chemical process underlying tin coating in order to optimise the quality of tin coati...
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Drug development: how can we make it more efficient?14 July 2015It takes years to develop new medicines, from the test tube to trials in humans. During the process it often happens that a drug that seems promising ...
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Professor Herman Overkleeft wins Jeremy Knowles Award 201515 June 2015Awarded for his innovative and insightful development of activity-based protein probes for the imaging and identification of enzymes in health and dis...
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New measuring method facilitates drug research29 May 2015
Leiden chemical biologists led by Dr Mario van der Stelt have developed a method to facilitate the search for new drugs. This method has allowed them ...